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Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 22:23:17 +0800
From:   zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] NFC: st-nci: remove a redundant null pointer check
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On 2018/9/26 22:03, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 08:30:50PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
>> The dev is impossible is NULL. hence the check is redundant. We
>> never will hit it.
>>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Thanks.
>> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
>> ---
>> v1->v2:
>>  -  According to Greg's suggestion. just remove the null pointer will be better.
>>
>>  drivers/nfc/st-nci/spi.c | 7 -------
>>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/nfc/st-nci/spi.c b/drivers/nfc/st-nci/spi.c
>> index 1470559..864fd90 100644
>> --- a/drivers/nfc/st-nci/spi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/nfc/st-nci/spi.c
>> @@ -233,13 +233,6 @@ static int st_nci_spi_probe(struct spi_device *dev)
>>  	dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s\n", __func__);
>>  	dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "IRQ: %d\n", dev->irq);
>>  
>> -	/* Check SPI platform functionnalities */
>> -	if (!dev) {
>> -		pr_debug("%s: dev is NULL. Device is not accessible.\n",
>> -			__func__);
>> -		return -ENODEV;
>> -	}
>> -
>>  	phy = devm_kzalloc(&dev->dev, sizeof(struct st_nci_spi_phy),
>>  			   GFP_KERNEL);
>>  	if (!phy)
>> -- 
>> 1.7.12.4
>>