From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@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.k...@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