On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 10:14:25AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K??nig wrote: > dev_driver_string() might return "" (via dev_bus_name()). If that happens > *drvstr == '\0' becomes true. > > Would the following be better?: > > const char *drvstr; > > if (pdev) > return "<null>"; > > drvstr = dev_driver_string(&pdev->dev); > > if (!strcmp(drvstr, "")) > return "<null>"; > > return drvstr; > > When I thought about this hunk I considered it ugly to have "<null>" in > it twice. Well, if you want to avoid that you can do: if (pdev) { const char *name = dev_driver_string(&pdev->dev); if (strcmp(drvstr, "")) return name; } return "<null>"; Which would be a lot more readable.