From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Subject: Re: net-PA Semi: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "pci_dev_put" Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 21:40:23 +0100 Message-ID: <547B80B7.5030707@users.sourceforge.net> References: <5307CAA2.8060406@users.sourceforge.net> <530A086E.8010901@users.sourceforge.net> <530A72AA.3000601@users.sourceforge.net> <530B5FB6.6010207@users.sourceforge.net> <530C5E18.1020800@users.sourceforge.net> <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.so urceforge.net> <547A09B1.9090102@users.sourceforge.net> <547B579F.10709@gmx.de> <547B6F9A.8030806@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Julia Lawall , Olof Johansson , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: Lino Sanfilippo Return-path: In-Reply-To: <547B6F9A.8030806@gmx.de> Sender: kernel-janitors-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > Maybe this topic should be clarified somewhere (e.g. in "CodingStyle")? > On the other hand i always found it obvious that its the callers > responsibility to only pass sane parameters to the called functions... Can you imagine that any more source code places which would benefit from check adjustments because of defensive programming? Regards, Markus