linux-kernel - Re: S390: Fine-tuning for six function implementations

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Message-ID: <44beba0d-2a1c-9afc-58a7-bba750641cf5@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Tue, 9 May 2017 12:54:09 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
        Christian Bornträger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
        Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Sascha Silbe <silbe@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: S390: Fine-tuning for six function implementations

> ... they might also be acceptable if they came from a genuine newbie 
> who does his first patch,

How would you really react if such Linux development beginners would dare
to pick any of the shown software change opportunities up?


> or if these patches represented genuine interest in the subsystem in question,

I am interested in various improvements where their size is varying between small
and big as usual.


> by being part of a larger work that adds new features or does some meaningful
> code transformations.

These updates happened also several times.

Regards,
Markus