Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031195AbaLLRXG (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:23:06 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:58196 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030797AbaLLRXD (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:23:03 -0500 Message-ID: <548B2468.5050402@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:22:48 +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: David Miller CC: Sergei Shtylyov , Paul Mackerras , linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , 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> In-Reply-To: <20141212.115922.687789059853236747.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:x59NURkdv8XR+e43nnUr1IE6iYmaimmx2/ktlzONh9w8pUiHGeH AqjQH+7NJ2PRcXn7aQfB/0+W3xwA7BIYsTh119O7FPgXEkUcBtZsqiYvckGJIBgV6awAn0x BVZSSO3uLo7uKJHKEKfQJ9vpYMmsloFzWbBGvEnnz3oznVw3coJynYH/z60vnTupUjKu6mF jub41ZsG1og84CQgEwcGg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> 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? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/