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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [media] bt8xx: One function call less in bttv_input_init() after error detection
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 23:10:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3ab238e-02f0-2511-9be1-a1447e7639bc@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ecf01283-e2eb-ecef-313f-123ba41c0336@grinta.net>

> kfree() is safe to call on a NULL pointer.

This is true.


> Despite that, you have found several instances of similar constructs:

Yes. - Special source code search pattern can point such places out
for further considerations.


> Didn't it occur to you that maybe those constructs are fine the way
> they are and this is the idiomatic way to write that kind of code?

Such a programming approach might look convenient. - I would prefer
a safer coding style for the corresponding exception handling.


> Why are you submitting patches implementing changes that have already
> been rejected?

The feedback to my update mixture is varying between acceptance and
disagreements as usual.


> Judging from your recent submissions, it seems that this process is not
> working well for you. I'm probably not the only one that is wonderign
> what are you trying to obtain with your patch submissions, other than
> having your name in the git log.

I am picking some change possibilities up in the hope of related
software improvements.

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-10 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-10 20:45 [PATCH 0/4] [media] bt8xx: Fine-tuning for three functions SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-10 20:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] [media] bt8xx: One function call less in bttv_input_init() after error detection SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-10 21:29   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2016-12-10 22:10     ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2016-12-11 21:52       ` Daniele Nicolodi
2016-12-12  7:33         ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-12  7:39           ` Daniele Nicolodi
2016-12-12 17:15             ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-12 17:56               ` Daniele Nicolodi
2016-12-12 18:03             ` Clarification for acceptance statistics? SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-12 21:02               ` Daniele Nicolodi
2016-12-12 22:11                 ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-12 23:19                   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2016-12-12 19:11             ` [media] bt8xx: One function call less in bttv_input_init() after error detection Dan Carpenter
2016-12-10 20:50 ` [PATCH 2/4] [media] bt8xx: Delete two error messages for a failed memory allocation SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-10 20:51 ` [PATCH 3/4] [media] bt8xx: Delete unnecessary variable initialisations in ca_send_message() SF Markus Elfring
2016-12-10 20:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] [media] bt8xx: Less function calls in dst_ca_ioctl() after error detection SF Markus Elfring

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