Re: [PATCH] Allow kfree_skb to be called with a NULL argument

[Michael Buesch]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 09:26, you wrote:
> Fairly trivial.  The extra conditional should get optimized away with
> current code.  But it also allows to walk through network drivers and
> get rid of the permanent
>       if (skb)
>               kfree(skb);
> conditionals.

I am all for this change, but I am wondering how this is
possible to get optimized away... The compiler can't know
if a skb variable is NULL or not, at runtime.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

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