linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks

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Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:30:49 +0100
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks

> I gave you very concrete feedback, I said exactly that I don't want
> error pointers left in data structure members.

I find that your critique affects the proposed update steps four to six,
doesn't it?
Are the other steps acceptable in principle?

> I cannot describe my requirements any more precisely than that.

I hope that a bit more constructive suggestions will be contributed by
involved
software developers around the affected source code. Now it seems
that a small code clean-up becomes a more challenging development task.

How do you prefer to redesign corresponding data structures eventually?

Regards,
Markus
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