Re: [PATCH 2/7] sfc: drop unnecessary list_empty
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2020-07-27 17:10:27
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2020-07-27 17:10:27
Also in:
kernel-janitors, lkml
From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:58:27 +0200
list_for_each_safe is able to handle an empty list. The only effect of avoiding the loop is not initializing the index variable. Drop list_empty tests in cases where these variables are not used. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
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Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Applied to net-next.