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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar@gmx.co.uk>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
	"James E. J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: scsi: aic7xxx: Remove null pointer checks before kfree()
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 16:27:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd462354-a14c-ddb2-c728-17a6073a5de0@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200409114813.g3k4phoguduz6pw2@medion>

> The thing is that this seems like an obvious improvement

Such a view can be promising.


> (albeit not a terribly critical one).

The prioritisation influences change integration considerably.


> It reduces SLoC and removes an unnecessary check.

I hope that such goals will be reconsidered also for this software module.


> AFAICS the patch you mention wasn't rejected on technical grounds,
> but simply wasn't picked up.

The usual factors were involved for free software development.


> If there is a reason why this change isn't warranted
> then I'd like to know why so I can send better patches in future :-)

I hope that also your change interests can increase chances for
software evolution in desired directions.
With which delays will specific improvements be achieved?

Regards,
Markus

      reply	other threads:[~2020-04-09 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-05 20:02 [PATCH] scsi: aic7xxx: Remove null pointer checks before kfree() Markus Elfring
2020-04-06  1:14 ` Qiujun Huang
2020-04-07 15:54 ` Alex Dewar
2020-04-07 16:32   ` Markus Elfring
2020-04-09 11:48     ` Alex Dewar
2020-04-09 14:27       ` Markus Elfring [this message]

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