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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: iio: Adjust checks for null pointers in six functions
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 21:30:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c168cdae-5cf7-d114-9aa6-d4ebf80b939f@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160925181509.GC19539@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

> Are you, by any chance, some kind of sociology grad?

Not yet. ;-)   - It looks also unlikely at the moment that my life will evolve
in such direction.


> You can't study development purely on the process level,

I find that I am not studying this topic. Am I practically contributing
small improvements to free software (including Linux) for years?


> ignoring the actual usefulness of contributions

I guess their usefulness is varying over time.


> and the fact that there are objective criteria of their worth.

Are there any source code quality goals left over which would be nice
to achieve also for this software module?

Regards,
Markus

      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-25 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net>
2015-12-26 13:04 ` [PATCH] iio: qcom-spmi-vadc: One check less in vadc_measure_ref_points() after error detection SF Markus Elfring
2016-01-02 18:28   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-24  6:22 ` [PATCH 0/7] iio: Fine-tuning for several function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24  6:24   ` [PATCH 1/7] iio: Use kmalloc_array() in iio_scan_mask_set() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 15:36     ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-24 16:18       ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 16:36         ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-24  6:25   ` [PATCH 2/7] iio: Rename a jump label in iio_buffer_store_watermark() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24 15:32     ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-24 19:21       ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-25  8:45         ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-25 13:00           ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-25 14:23             ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-25 15:17               ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-25 16:49                 ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-25 17:31                   ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24  6:26   ` [PATCH 3/7] iio: Rename a jump label in iio_buffer_store_enable() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24  6:28   ` [PATCH 4/7] iio: Rename a jump label in iio_buffer_write_length() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24  6:29   ` [PATCH 5/7] iio: Rename a jump label in iio_scan_el_ts_store() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24  6:30   ` [PATCH 6/7] iio: Rename a jump label in iio_scan_el_store() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-24  6:31   ` [PATCH 7/7] iio: Adjust checks for null pointers in six functions SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-25 14:24     ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-25 14:44       ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-25 16:51         ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-25 17:45           ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-25 18:15             ` Al Viro
2016-09-25 19:30               ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]

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