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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:53:28 +0000
Subject: Re: net-PA Semi: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "pci_dev_put"
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To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>, Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org, backports@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>

On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 21:34 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:

> > So this kind of evolution is no problem for the (automated) backports
> > using the backports project - although it can be difficult to detect
> > such a thing is needed.
> 
> That is exactly the problem...

I'm not convinced though that it should stop such progress in mainline.

johannes