From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758770AbaLLUHs (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:07:48 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:38039 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751254AbaLLUHr (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:07:47 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:07:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20141212.150741.2169710971698369167.davem@davemloft.net> 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <548B2468.5050402@users.sourceforge.net> References: <548B1E44.6050005@users.sourceforge.net> <20141212.115922.687789059853236747.davem@davemloft.net> <548B2468.5050402@users.sourceforge.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.6 on Emacs 24.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:07:45 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.