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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:33:05 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] IA64-IRQ: Use kmalloc_array() in sn_irq_lh_init()
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To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

On Sun, 2016-08-28 at 11:28 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:

> I do think that there is some value in doing similar things in a uniform
> way, using meaningful names, even if in a particular case it doesn't help
> performance or reduce code size.=A0 Even duplicating code could be OK if =
it
> is not in a critical path and it makes the code overall easier to
> understand.=A0 But if the maintainer prefers the code not to be duplicate=
d,
> then of course it should not be duplicated.

All true too, thanks Julia.

It's all maintainer choice.