RE: [patch v2] dca: remove unneeded NULL check

From: Sosnowski, Maciej
Date: Mon Nov 22 2010 - 11:50:50 EST


Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The return here doesn't release the locks or re-enable IRQs. But as
> Andrew Morton points out, domain is never NULL. list_first_entry()
> essentially never returns NULL and also we already verified that the
> list is not empty.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dca/dca-core.c b/drivers/dca/dca-core.c index
> b98c676..c461eda 100644
> --- a/drivers/dca/dca-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/dca/dca-core.c
> @@ -110,8 +110,6 @@ static void unregister_dca_providers(void)
>
> /* at this point only one domain in the list is expected */
> domain = list_first_entry(&dca_domains, struct dca_domain, node);
> - if (!domain)
> - return;
>
> list_for_each_entry_safe(dca, _dca, &domain->dca_providers, node) {
> list_del(&dca->node);

Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@xxxxxxxxx>
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