Hi Sergei,
On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sergei.shtyl...@cogentembedded.com> wrote:
> Browsing thru the driver diassembly, I noticed that gcc was able to
> figure out that the 'ndev' pointer is always non-NULL when calling
> free_netdev() on the probe() method's error path and thus skip that
> redundant NULL check... gcc is smart, be like gcc! :-)
Thanks for your patch!
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtyl...@cogentembedded.com>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+rene...@glider.be>
> --- net-next.orig/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> +++ net-next/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
> @@ -2205,8 +2205,7 @@ out_dma_free:
> if (chip_id != RCAR_GEN2)
> ravb_ptp_stop(ndev);
> out_release:
> - if (ndev)
> - free_netdev(ndev);
> + free_netdev(ndev);
>
> pm_runtime_put(&pdev->dev);
> pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
BTW, there isn't a functional dependency, but you may want to move the
freeing of the netdev below disabling of Runtime PM for symmetry (use
reverse order in cleanup).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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