netdev - Re: [PATCH] cipso: simplify cipso_v4_translate() when !CONFIG

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Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:06:20 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pmoore@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cipso: simplify cipso_v4_translate() when
 !CONFIG_NETLABEL

From: Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:59:33 -0500

> On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 02:55:11 PM David Miller wrote:
>> 1) This is a cleanup, and therefore not suitable for submission right now
>>    because the net-next tree is closed.
> 
> I wasn't expecting it to go into the current merge window, I was just sending 
> it out now so you'd have it for when things started moving again.  Think of it 
> as spreading the pain out a bit.

When the merge window opens, I make an announcement here on the list
politely asking pople to defer net-next patch submissions until after
the merge window closes and I explicitly announce that net-next is
open again.

>> 2) A more suitable commit log message would have been "Don't needlessly
>>    recompute 'opt[opt_iter + 1]' as we already have it stored in tag_len".
>> 
>>    Then anyone who reads this commit message can say "yes, obviously this
>>    is a correct change and matches what the patch is doing"
> 
> Fair enough.  Do you want a resubmit with your wording once the merge window 
> closes?

... and I announce that net-next is open once more, yes.  Thank you.
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