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Date:	Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:31:09 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ip: initialize hash list

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 08:15 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 08:06 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 07:52 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:46:20 -0700
> > > Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > []
> > > > Are you doing to do just this one or submit a series?
> > > 
> > > Hadn't planned on fixing more than one. And would not go outside code
> > > that I actually use.
> > 
> > What a pity.
> > 
> > I think if you identify what you believe is a
> > trivial defect in your own code, it's both
> > polite and social to fix similar defects in
> > other code too.
> 
> Joe, I find this quite misplaced.

Our opinions differ then.

What's "misplaced" about suggesting that  a
person that identifies and submits a patch
for a code form viewed as sub-optimal could
fix the other instances of that code form?

> So far, there is no bug.

I did not even suggest there was a bug.
I wrote "trivial defect".

> What about fixing real bugs instead ?

That'd be good too, with the caveat that
those "real bugs" can take a rather more
intensive effort to identify, isolate and
correct without introducing other defects.


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