From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934875AbaLLTIO (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:08:14 -0500 Received: from mail-ig0-f173.google.com ([209.85.213.173]:53496 "EHLO mail-ig0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932399AbaLLTIL (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:08:11 -0500 Message-ID: <1418411287.13491.22.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks From: Eric Dumazet To: SF Markus Elfring Cc: David Miller , Sergei Shtylyov , Paul Mackerras , linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:08:07 -0800 In-Reply-To: <548B2468.5050402@users.sourceforge.net> References: <548B0A29.8050503@users.sourceforge.net> <20141212.105106.1162681032492664308.davem@davemloft.net> <548B1E44.6050005@users.sourceforge.net> <20141212.115922.687789059853236747.davem@davemloft.net> <548B2468.5050402@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 18:22 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > 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? The thing is : We are in the merge window, tracking bugs added in latest dev cycle. Having to deal with patches like yours is adding pressure on the maintainer (and other developers) at the wrong time.