From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 20:10:22 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The script “checkpatch.pl” pointed information out like the following. Comparison to NULL could be written !… Thus fix the affected source code places. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/mips/sgio2audio.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/mips/sgio2audio.c b/sound/mips/sgio2audio.c index 9e175a184b66..4027f0fc8db6 100644 --- a/sound/mips/sgio2audio.c +++ b/sound/mips/sgio2audio.c @@ -841,14 +841,14 @@ static int snd_sgio2audio_create(struct snd_card *card, return -ENOENT; chip = kzalloc(sizeof(*chip), GFP_KERNEL); - if (chip == NULL) + if (!chip) return -ENOMEM; chip->card = card; chip->ring_base = dma_alloc_coherent(NULL, MACEISA_RINGBUFFERS_SIZE, &chip->ring_base_dma, GFP_USER); - if (chip->ring_base == NULL) { + if (!chip->ring_base) { printk(KERN_ERR "sgio2audio: could not allocate ring buffers\n"); kfree(chip); -- 2.15.0 -- 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