Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: detect leading * in NULL comparison check | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:49:01 -0800 |
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On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 12:59 -0500, S. Gilles wrote: > Prevent checkpatch.pl from emitting messages like > > CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "!rx_p" > #51: FILE: drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c:51: > + if (*rx_p == NULL) { > > by checking for leading * characters in the comparison value. > > Signed-off-by: S. Gilles <sgilles@math.umd.edu> > --- > > I've run this through everything in staging/ as a test, it seems to > work okay.
This wouldn't work with
* foo == NULL;
but there don't seem to be any in the kernel source.
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