linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Remove NULL checks from jffs2_destroy_slab

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Date:	Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:27:51 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	Salah Triki <salah.triki@....org>, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Remove NULL checks from jffs2_destroy_slab_caches

On (08/06/15 09:24), Julia Lawall wrote:
> > >
> > > Please provide the appropriate context next time. And for the moment, I will
> > > not apply this, because this does not work on the current MTD development tree.
> > > Try your patch bomb on the next release, as it's not worth my time to
> > > cross-merge a -next branch just for a "cleanup".
> > >
> >
> > Julia already has a patch set to cleanup all the existing users
> > (not published yet, though).
> 
> We should probably have put our patches into a series.  Because it is true
> that the cleanup patch breaks existing code.  So one has to be aware of
> the dependency between them.
> 

I guess we can wait until 3 patches in question will land in Linus's
tree. What do you think?

	-ss
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