From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:07:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks Message-Id: <20141212.150741.2169710971698369167.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <548B1E44.6050005@users.sourceforge.net> <20141212.115922.687789059853236747.davem@davemloft.net> <548B2468.5050402@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <548B2468.5050402@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: elfring@users.sourceforge.net Cc: sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, paulus@samba.org, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, julia.lawall@lip6.fr From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:22:48 +0100 >>> Where should "the error pointers" be stored instead? >> A local variable, before you assign it into the datastructure. > > Will it be acceptable for you that anyone (or even me) will introduce > such a change with a seventh (and eventually eighth) update step here? > Do you want any other sequence for source code preparation of > the requested software improvement? I'd like to honestly ask why you are being so difficult? Everyone gets their code reviewed, everyone has to modify their changes to adhere to the subsystem maintainer's wishes. You are not being treated specially, and quite frankly nobody is asking anything unreasonable of you.