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Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2016 20:25:45 +0900
From:	DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Lidza Louina <lidza.louina@...il.com>,
	Mark Hounschell <markh@...pro.net>,
	"driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org" 
	<driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	devel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15 RESEND] staging: dgnc: remove redundant NULL checks in

2016-08-17 15:25 GMT+09:00 Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:05:03AM +0900, DaeSeok Youn wrote:
>> 2016-08-16 2:05 GMT+09:00 Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>:
>> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 03:11:13PM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
>> >> The dgnc_block_til_ready() is only used in dgnc_tty_open().
>> >> The unit data(struct un_t) was stored into tty->driver_data in dgnc_tty_open().
>> >> And also tty and un were tested about NULL so these variables doesn't
>> >> need to check for NULL in dgnc_block_til_ready().
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
>> >> ---
>> >> RESEND: This patch was not merged for a long time, if there is any reason
>> >> why this patch could NOT be merged into staging tree, let me know.
>> >> There were no comment for this patch.
>> >> I cannot understand why this patch have to wait long time to merge.
>> >> And I also sent emails to mailing-lists for reminding this patch...
>> >> please let me know, what is the problem to merge this patch into staging tree.
>> >
>> > Please note, staging patches are at the bottom of my priority queue.
>> > Combined with a vacation, conferences, and a merge window and there are
>> > a lot of pending staging patches in my to-review queue.
>>
>> That's Ok. but I took a long time to wait for merging my patches in
>> this case. :-(
>
> You are not alone.  And what's the rush?  These are just trivial staging
> driver patches, it's not like you have the hardware for this device and
> are needing these patches to get it to work, right?
yes, you're right.

Thanks.

Regards,
Daeseok Youn.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h