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Message-ID: <dd69629f-abf4-cc03-dddb-b2f3e7cb92fd@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2016 18:38:52 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@...e.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>,
        Neil Brown <neilb@...e.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: md/raid1: Improve another size determination in setup_conf()

>>> but patches that just fix coding style are a bad thing
>>
>> When you find such a change opportunity so "bad", are there any 
>> circumstances left over where you would dare to touch the corresponding 
>> source code line.
> 
> If you actually rewrite the code or fix some real bug there.

Do the proposed update steps 12 - 16 for the function "setup_conf"
(in this software module) fit to your condition?

Do you reject this update step?

Regards,
Markus

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