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Subject[PATCH] net: atm: remove redundant null pointer check on dev->name
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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

dev->name is a char array of IFNAMSIZ elements, hence can never be
null, so the null pointer check is redundant. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
net/atm/mpc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/atm/mpc.c b/net/atm/mpc.c
index 0e98222..3b3b1a2 100644
--- a/net/atm/mpc.c
+++ b/net/atm/mpc.c
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ static int mpoa_event_listener(struct notifier_block *mpoa_notifier,
if (!net_eq(dev_net(dev), &init_net))
return NOTIFY_DONE;

- if (dev->name == NULL || strncmp(dev->name, "lec", 3))
+ if (strncmp(dev->name, "lec", 3))
return NOTIFY_DONE; /* we are only interested in lec:s */

switch (event) {
--
2.8.1
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