netdev - Re: ISDN-Gigaset: Release memory in gigaset_initcs() after an allocation failure

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2016 09:28:17 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     gigaset307x-common@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
        Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: ISDN-Gigaset: Release memory in gigaset_initcs() after an
 allocation failure

> This patch creates new bugs.

Thanks for your information.


> I have a policy of not telling Markus where the bug is,

I find this kind of response strange.


> because otherwise he'll just resend the patch

This can also happen when the other contributors request it.


> and I have told him many times to stop sending these cleanup patches

Software "cleanups" seem to stress the review process to some degree.


> that just introduce bugs and waste maintainer time.

I guess that the situation is mixed depending on the subsystem
or concrete software module, isn't it?

Regards,
Markus