[PATCH 20/26] [media] staging: as102: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() and pointless comments

Jesper Juhl jj at chaosbits.net
Mon Apr 9 20:51:48 UTC 2012


release_firmware() deals gracefullt with NULL pointers - it's
redundant to check for them before calling the function.

Also remove a few pointless comments - it's rather obvious from the
code that kfree() free's a buffer and that release_firmware() releases
firmware - comments just stating that add no value.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj at chaosbits.net>
---
 drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c |    5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c b/drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c
index 43ebc43..9db275e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c
@@ -230,11 +230,8 @@ int as102_fw_upload(struct as10x_bus_adapter_t *bus_adap)
 	pr_info("%s: firmware: %s loaded with success\n",
 		DRIVER_NAME, fw2);
 error:
-	/* free data buffer */
 	kfree(cmd_buf);
-	/* release firmware if needed */
-	if (firmware != NULL)
-		release_firmware(firmware);
+	release_firmware(firmware);
 
 	LEAVE();
 	return errno;
-- 
1.7.10


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