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* [PATCH] decnet: Remove unnecessary check for dev->name
@ 2018-09-21 19:30 Nathan Chancellor
  2018-09-21 20:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nathan Chancellor @ 2018-09-21 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller
  Cc: linux-decnet-user, netdev, linux-kernel, Nathan Chancellor

Clang warns that the address of a pointer will always evaluated as true
in a boolean context.

net/decnet/dn_dev.c:1366:10: warning: address of array 'dev->name' will
always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
                                dev->name ? dev->name : "???",
                                ~~~~~^~~~ ~
1 warning generated.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/116
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
---
 net/decnet/dn_dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
index bfd43e8f2c06..d0b3e69c6b39 100644
--- a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@ static int dn_dev_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 
 		seq_printf(seq, "%-8s %1s     %04u %04u   %04lu %04lu"
 				"   %04hu    %03d %02x    %-10s %-7s %-7s\n",
-				dev->name ? dev->name : "???",
+				dev->name,
 				dn_type2asc(dn_db->parms.mode),
 				0, 0,
 				dn_db->t3, dn_db->parms.t3,
-- 
2.19.0


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* Re: [PATCH] decnet: Remove unnecessary check for dev->name
  2018-09-21 19:30 [PATCH] decnet: Remove unnecessary check for dev->name Nathan Chancellor
@ 2018-09-21 20:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2018-09-21 20:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nathan Chancellor
  Cc: David S. Miller, linux-decnet-user, netdev, linux-kernel

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:30:34 -0700
Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:

> Clang warns that the address of a pointer will always evaluated as true
> in a boolean context.
> 
> net/decnet/dn_dev.c:1366:10: warning: address of array 'dev->name' will
> always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
>                                 dev->name ? dev->name : "???",
>                                 ~~~~~^~~~ ~
> 1 warning generated.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/116
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>

Makes sense name in net_device is an array.

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

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