From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.14]:50488 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757832AbcIYTag (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:30:36 -0400 Subject: Re: iio: Adjust checks for null pointers in six functions To: Al Viro References: <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net> <8e0c9fdd-fc9a-0093-278f-00f3beb2a8f6@users.sourceforge.net> <5064024e-3510-cec9-d925-b617f7204579@kernel.org> <4e79ad49-17fc-1ab9-6a88-06cff959b6de@users.sourceforge.net> <3b681d28-c3f9-7d54-f3f3-eccb51479356@users.sourceforge.net> <20160925181509.GC19539@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jonathan Cameron , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, Hartmut Knaack , Lars-Peter Clausen , Peter Meerwald-Stadler , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: SF Markus Elfring Message-ID: Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 21:30:15 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160925181509.GC19539@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Sender: linux-iio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org > 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