From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965328AbaLMGGA (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:06:00 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:58441 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965236AbaLMGF6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:05:58 -0500 Message-ID: <548BD72A.6040809@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:05:30 +0100 From: SF Markus Elfring User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Dumazet 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks 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> <1418411287.13491.22.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> In-Reply-To: <1418411287.13491.22.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:2fzE7cnOc+J+hEkbqGvxfxQZxxFPHLT/59oRMIGRqRIBKbXLL7g M30br3JHiNwNhRNp/VzcbztHXjjQH+cAguc+0sHA2MQThDlp/7gTHBLwU2MDaWCKvlCivf2 /yLewdPhwdkIQJ4I+3iCpVQcEkJWSE5uvc4HUM3BG6kDK7l1YotgOA6+jElbmIxxcGtwksz tMOQMtorzOYJU8r4skWOg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > We are in the merge window, tracking bugs added in latest dev cycle. I am also curious on the software evolution about how many improvements will arrive in the next Linux versions. > Having to deal with patches like yours is adding pressure > on the maintainer (and other developers) at the wrong time. You can relax a bit eventually. More merge windows will follow, won't they? It will be nice if a bunch of recent code clean-ups which were also triggered by static source code analysis will be integrated into Linux 3.19 already. More update suggestions will be considered later again as usual. Regards, Markus