Hi, release_firmware() just does nothing if passed a NULL pointer. So there's no reason to test before the call in saa7164-fw.c::saa7164_downloadfirmware(). Removing the pointless conditional also saves a few bytes. before: text data bss dec hex filename 7943 112 2144 10199 27d7 drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-fw.o after: text data bss dec hex filename 7931 112 2136 10179 27c3 drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-fw.o Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- saa7164-fw.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) compile tested only. diff --git a/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-fw.c b/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-fw.c index 484533c..af71367 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-fw.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-fw.c @@ -608,8 +608,6 @@ int saa7164_downloadfirmware(struct saa7164_dev *dev) ret = 0; out: - if (fw) - release_firmware(fw); - + release_firmware(fw); return ret; } -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html