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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:17:28 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks
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To: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, 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>

> I think what David said was pretty clear: If you see code like the above
> there is no need to refactor it.

I can understand this view in principle.


> That does not mean that this is the _preferred_ way of error handling.

Can your feedback help in the clarification of suggestions around
my update steps one to six for this Linux software module?

Regards,
Markus