Re: [PATCH net-next 02/13] driver: net: remove unnecessary skbNULL check before calling dev_kfree_skb_irq

[David Miller]

From: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <govindarajulu90@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:56:48 +0530 (IST)

> Did you have a chance to look at this? Let me know how you want me to
> fix this.

I said clearly that I don't want this change to be made, because in many
cases the "= NULL" assignment in the driver is desirable to elide when it
isn't necessary because the value is already NULL.  Therefore the NULL
check in dev_kfree_skb_irq() is basically coming for free.

Yes there are other cases, but it really doesn't matter enough to justify
your change.

Thanks.
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