[PATCH 02/11] net/tap: check if name is null

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at amd.com
Mon Nov 21 23:57:25 CET 2022


On 11/21/2022 10:03 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-11-21 at 22:41 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> 21/11/2022 21:40, 
>> okaya at kernel.org
>>  <mailto:okaya at kernel.org>
>> :
>>> --- a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
>>> @@ -2340,6 +2340,10 @@ rte_pmd_tun_probe(struct rte_vdev_device *dev)
>>>  	struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev;
>>>  
>>>  	name = rte_vdev_device_name(dev);
>>> +	if (!name) {
>>
>> Please it is preferred to check against NULL,
>> because name is not a boolean, thanks.
>> I know it's longer but it is more explicit.
> 
> Sure, I can do that. Getting used to dpdk coding style. I wasn't sure
> what to do with braces on single line too. At least, I got a warning on
> that too.
> 

DPDK coding convention is documented if it helps:
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/coding_style.html

>>
>> Thanks for the fixes in this series.
>>
>>
> 
> Cheers
> 



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