On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 12:59 -0500, S. Gilles wrote:
> Prevent checkpatch.pl from emitting messages like
> 
>   CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "!rx_p"
>   #51: FILE: drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c:51:
>   +       if (*rx_p == NULL) {
> 
> by checking for leading * characters in the comparison value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: S. Gilles <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> I've run this through everything in staging/ as a test, it seems to
> work okay.

This wouldn't work with

        * foo == NULL;

but there don't seem to be any in the kernel source.
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