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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 10:54:09 +0000
Subject: Re: S390: Fine-tuning for six function implementations
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_Borntr=c3=a4ger?= <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>, Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Sascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

> ... they might also be acceptable if they came from a genuine newbie 
> who does his first patch,

How would you really react if such Linux development beginners would dare
to pick any of the shown software change opportunities up?


> or if these patches represented genuine interest in the subsystem in question,

I am interested in various improvements where their size is varying between small
and big as usual.


> by being part of a larger work that adds new features or does some meaningful
> code transformations.

These updates happened also several times.

Regards,
Markus