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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:56:36 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks
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To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>


> You are asking me to invest a lot of time for a very trivial
> set of changes.

I find the proposed six update steps also trivial so far.


> Why don't you just integrate the feedback you were given and
> resubmit your patch series, just like any other developer would?

I find the requested redesign and reorganisation of involved data structures
not so easy and therefore more challenging at the moment.
Where should "the error pointers" be stored instead?
Is such a software improvement even a kind of add-on to my patch series?

Regards,
Markus