On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:25:15PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > @@ -487,8 +488,7 @@ static void rtw_usb_if1_deinit(struct adapter *if1) > DBG_88E("+r871xu_dev_remove, hw_init_completed=%d\n", > if1->hw_init_completed); > rtw_free_drv_sw(if1); > - if (pnetdev) > - rtw_free_netdev(pnetdev); > + rtw_free_netdev(pnetdev); I still feel that hiding the if statement inside the function call makes the code more subtle and it is a bad harmful thing to do. This is especially true if you have trained yourself to know that free_netdev() can't accept NULL pointers. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html