Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5: remove NULL check before dev_{put, hold}

[Saeed Mahameed]

On 30 Nov 09:25, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:00:34 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 03:41:27PM +0800, zhang.songyi@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: zhang songyi <zhang.songyi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > The call netdev_{put, hold} of dev_{put, hold} will check NULL,
> > > so there is no need to check before using dev_{put, hold}.
> > >
> > > Fix the following coccicheck warning:
> > > /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c:1450:2-10:
> > > WARNING:
> > > WARNING  NULL check before dev_{put, hold} functions is not needed.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: zhang songyi <zhang.songyi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c | 3 +--
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > Please change all places in mlx5 in one patch.
>
> Your call as a mlx5 maintainer, but I'd say don't change them at all.
> All these trivial patches are such a damn waste of time.

I agree, let's not waste more time on this, I will accept this patch as is
since it's already marked awating-upstream.. 

Applied to net-next-mlx5