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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux390@de.ibm.com, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] s390/net: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function calls
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:55:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150119185519.GK9759@ld-irv-0074> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141103095059.GL6879@mwanda>

I went digging through some of Markus's old patch history, and noticed
this...

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 12:50:59PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This one is buggy.
> 
> I'm sorry, but please stop sending these.

I'm tending to concur.

> For kfree(), at least we all know that kfree() accepts NULL pointer.
> But for this one:
> 1) I don't know what the functions do so I have to look at the code.
> 2) It's in a arch that I don't compile so cscope isn't set up meaning
>    it's hard to find the functions.
> 
> You're sending a lot of patches and they are all hard to review and some
> of them are buggy and none of them really add any value.  It's a waste
> of your time and it's a waste of my time.

And you're still sending buggy patches that exhibit the same qualities.
They're still wasting Dan's time, and now they're wasting mine.

I appreciate automated checkers where they provide added value, but I
really feel you haven't done your diligence on them.

Regards,
Brian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-19 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2014-10-31 17:40                                 ` [PATCH 1/1] s390/net: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function calls SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-03  9:50                                   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-11-03 15:55                                     ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-03 16:25                                       ` Dan Carpenter
2014-11-03 16:50                                         ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-03 17:02                                           ` Julia Lawall
2014-11-03 17:16                                           ` Dan Carpenter
2014-11-03 17:40                                             ` SF Markus Elfring
2015-01-19 18:55                                     ` Brian Norris [this message]
2014-11-03 11:04                                   ` [PATCH 1/1] " Ursula Braun
2014-11-03 16:10                                     ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-03 16:28                                       ` Dan Carpenter
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2014-11-17 14:30                                               ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-22 14:05                                 ` [PATCH 1/1] s390/pci: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "debug_unregister" SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-24 19:06                                   ` Sebastian Ott
2015-06-24 20:48                                 ` [PATCH] s390/process: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" SF Markus Elfring
2015-06-25 10:02                                   ` walter harms
2015-06-25 11:37                                     ` Heiko Carstens
2015-11-16 13:23                                 ` [PATCH] SCSI-zfcp: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "mempool_destroy" SF Markus Elfring
2015-12-04 17:57                                   ` Benjamin Block
2016-01-14 14:56                                     ` Steffen Maier
2015-11-16 14:15                                 ` [PATCH] s390: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "debug_unregister" SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-16 15:30                                   ` Heiko Carstens
2015-11-17 19:20                                 ` [PATCH] s390-ctcm: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "channel_remove" SF Markus Elfring
2015-11-25  9:37                                   ` Ursula Braun
2016-07-16 18:40                                 ` [PATCH] s390/pci: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "pci_dev_put" SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-18  7:00                                   ` Martin Schwidefsky

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