the "brd" value cannot be NULL in dgnc_finalize_board_init(). Because "brd" as a parameter of this function was already checked for NULL. the dgnc_finalize_board_init() as a static function was called only from dgnc_found_board() function and brd->magic value was assigned once in dgnc_found_board(). So it doesn't need to check for DGNC_BOARD_MAGIC value. Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx> --- RESEND: This patch was not merged for a long time, if there is any reason why this patch could NOT be merged into staging tree, let me know. There were no comment for this patch. I cannot understand why this patch have to wait long time to merge. And I also sent emails to mailing-lists for reminding this patch... please let me know, what is the problem to merge this patch into staging tree. drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c index af2e835..22257d2 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c @@ -579,9 +579,6 @@ static int dgnc_finalize_board_init(struct dgnc_board *brd) { int rc = 0; - if (!brd || brd->magic != DGNC_BOARD_MAGIC) - return -ENODEV; - if (brd->irq) { rc = request_irq(brd->irq, brd->bd_ops->intr, IRQF_SHARED, "DGNC", brd); -- 1.9.1 -- 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