It doesn't make sense to check "!ai->config.rates" here. "ai->config.rates" is the address of an eight bytes array and it can't ever be null here. Also if it were NULL then trying to set: ai->config.rates[i] = basic_rate | 0x80; would cause an oops. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c b/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c index 1d05445..d806497 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c @@ -3886,8 +3886,7 @@ static u16 setup_card(struct airo_info *ai, u8 *mac, int lock) } if ( basic_rate > 0 ) { for( i = 0; i < 8; i++ ) { - if ( ai->config.rates[i] == basic_rate || - !ai->config.rates ) { + if (ai->config.rates[i] == basic_rate) { ai->config.rates[i] = basic_rate | 0x80; break; } -- 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