Re: [PATCH 1/2] ravb: kill redundant check in the probe() method

[Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!

On 12/31/2017 9:41 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> Browsing thru the driver diassembly, I noticed that gcc was  able to

   Aw, it's disassembly!
   DaveM, is that worth reposting?

> figure  out  that the 'ndev' pointer is always non-NULL when calling
> free_netdev()  on the probe() method's  error path and  thus skip that
> redundant NULL check... gcc is smart, be like gcc! 
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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MBR, Sergei