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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>,
	jlayton@poochiereds.net, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	miaoxie@huawei.com, zhaohongjiang@huawei.com,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd: make strdup_if_nonnull static
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 22:39:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170403023905.GA19658@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgridyn8.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 12:15:55PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31 2017, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:50:47PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 29 2017, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Thanks, applying for 4.12.--b.
> >> 
> >> Ugh... does strdup_if_nonnull() actually help readability at all?
> >> kstrdup() already handles NULL fine, which is what the name seems to
> >> suggest is happening.
> >> I would think kstrdup_report_error() is a name that better reflects the
> >> function.
> >> 
> >> Or just discard it:
> >
> > Yes, what was I thinking?  Just didn't read kstrdup(), I guess.
> > Applying as follows.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Feel free to add
>   Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
> 
> I probably should have stuck that in there in the first place, just in
> case.

For a small patch from a known contributor I figure the risk of just
assuming DCO case (c) is negligible.  Anyway, added, thanks.

--b.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-03  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-23  8:57 [PATCH] nfsd: make strdup_if_nonnull static Jason Yan
2017-03-29 21:51 ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-03-30  6:50   ` NeilBrown
2017-03-31 20:09     ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-04-03  2:15       ` NeilBrown
2017-04-03  2:39         ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]

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