linux-kernel - Re: omapfb/dss: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in three functions

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:49:24 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>,
        Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: omapfb/dss: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in three functions

>>>> It seems that I got no responses so far for clarification requests
>>>> according to the documentation in a direction I hoped for.
>>>
>>> That's because you are pretty unresponsive to direction.
>>
>> From which places did you get this impression?
> 
> Perhaps from the text that you have written only four lines below.
> All comments are dismissed as "the usual mixture of disagreements and acceptance".

A mixture will always evolve.

* Some acceptance might not need further considerations.

* But the disagreements are remembered differently.
  They have got a potential for further improvements in some areas.

> If you look at the patches sent by others, who learn from
> the feedback provided to them,

I am also learning to some degree continuously.

> there are not so many responses on the disagreements side.

How do you think about to look at the details for such an observation?

> So the mixture is not usual.

I find that it can be also a matter of statistics.

> Since you send lots of patches on the same issues,

Yes. - I am trying to fix some implementation details by the means
of source code analysis and corresponding transformation.
The patch count is still growing.

> there should be no disagreements at all at this point.

I got an other impression. The probability for disagreements is increasing
in relation to the number of contributors to which I show change possibilities.

There are also other open issues remaining which can get another
solution somehow.

Regards,
Markus