Hello David. Thanks for your detail review. The code is wrong and will be removed because of unused code later. Regards. Johnny. -----Original Message----- From: David Binderman [mailto:dcb314@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 8:19 PM To: Kim, Johnny; Kim, Rachel; Lee, Dean; Park, Chris; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: linux-4.2-rc1/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c:1874: bad test ? Hello there, [linux-4.2-rc1/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c:1874]: (style) A pointer can not be negative so it is either pointless or an error to check if it is. Source code is if (wilc_mac_thread < 0) { but struct task_struct *wilc_mac_thread; Regards David Binderman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html