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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Steven Stewart-Gallus <sstewartgallus00@mylangara.bc.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ipc/mqueue.c: Drag unneeded code out of locks
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:52:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1416257530.4494.0.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <546A47C6.4030309@colorfullife.com>

On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 20:08 +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> On 11/16/2014 08:40 PM, Steven Stewart-Gallus wrote:
> > Finally, please don't ignore the rest of my message. Even if my patch
> > isn't that good there are lots of ways to compromise and improve it
> > such as adding tests, annotations and making it clearer.
> 
> I think you were already given ideas how to improve the patch:
> 
> a) split the patch.
> 
> b) create test cases so that you are able to check that the code still 
> behaves as it did before

Adding/improving ipc kselftests would also be very welcome.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-17 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-07  5:40 [PATCH 1/1] ipc/mqueue.c: Drag unneeded code out of locks Steven Stewart-Gallus
2014-11-12  0:21 ` Andrew Morton
2014-11-15  4:42   ` Steven Stewart-Gallus
2014-11-12  8:16 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-11-15  4:44   ` Steven Stewart-Gallus
2014-11-15 21:22     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-11-16 19:40       ` Steven Stewart-Gallus
2014-11-17 19:08         ` Manfred Spraul
2014-11-17 20:52           ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]

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