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Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <116ce532-ae6e-47b4-982d-6066c8020022@kernel.dk> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:30:46 -0600 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: cleanup various NULL pointer comparisons To: Alone Dangal Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20260227150641.28735-1-yogeshdangal66@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Jens Axboe In-Reply-To: <20260227150641.28735-1-yogeshdangal66@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2/27/26 8:06 AM, Alone Dangal wrote: > Remove open-coded NULL comparisons to follow kernel coding style > guidelines. While at it, remove a trailing whitespace in blk-core.c. This is just unnecessary churn. -- Jens Axboe