The dev is impossible is NULL. hence the check is redundant. We never will hit it. Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v1->v2: - According to Greg's suggestion. just remove the null pointer will be better. drivers/nfc/st-nci/spi.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/nfc/st-nci/spi.c b/drivers/nfc/st-nci/spi.c index 1470559..864fd90 100644 --- a/drivers/nfc/st-nci/spi.c +++ b/drivers/nfc/st-nci/spi.c @@ -233,13 +233,6 @@ static int st_nci_spi_probe(struct spi_device *dev) dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s\n", __func__); dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "IRQ: %d\n", dev->irq); - /* Check SPI platform functionnalities */ - if (!dev) { - pr_debug("%s: dev is NULL. Device is not accessible.\n", - __func__); - return -ENODEV; - } - phy = devm_kzalloc(&dev->dev, sizeof(struct st_nci_spi_phy), GFP_KERNEL); if (!phy) -- 1.7.12.4