Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] staging: rtl8188eu: Deletion of unnecessary checks before three function calls

[Julia Lawall]

> > This is especially true if you have trained yourself to know that
> > free_netdev() can't accept NULL pointers.
> 
> Do you need to adjust your concerns a bit over time when function variants
> provide a corresponding safety check in their implementations?

There would not seem to be any _need_ to do so.  An unnecessary null test 
is always safe.  The only real problem that I can see with an unnecessary 
null test in error handling code (intrinsically not critical performance 
wise) is if it gives the illusion that a value can be null when it cannot.

julia
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