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Subject: Re: net-PA Semi: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
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On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 21:34 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:

> > So this kind of evolution is no problem for the (automated) backports
> > using the backports project - although it can be difficult to detect
> > such a thing is needed.
> 
> That is exactly the problem...

I'm not convinced though that it should stop such progress in mainline.

johannes


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