Re: [PATCH 3/3] net-PPP: Delete an unnecessary assignment

SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-30T21:16:02Z

> I have no idea why its a patch on its own, and why state->arc4 gets
> special treatment while state->sha1 does not.

I did not fiddle with the data structure element "sha1" because
I assumed that it might be still relevant for the call of a function
like crypto_free_blkcipher().

> This definitely belongs to the previous patch, refactoring error
> handling in mppe_alloc()

I have got different preferences for change distribution over several
patches here.
I find it safer to tackle an assignment clean-up after adjustments
for jump labels.

> Also, it seems your patches do not fix bugs, so so you need to target
> net-next tree, as explained in Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt

Do you want that I resend my update suggestion?

Regards,
Markus