From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965449AbdLRROy (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:14:54 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:57604 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935335AbdLRROt (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:14:49 -0500 Subject: Re: jsm_tty: Deletion of a null pointer check in two functions? To: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Joe Perches , Jiri Slaby , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org References: <5c78db97-88f5-8655-9a47-eeee0a043fba@users.sourceforge.net> <1511976187.19952.65.camel@perches.com> <20171129173504.GA20581@kroah.com> <1511977896.19952.69.camel@perches.com> <20171129180528.GA24705@kroah.com> <089a4b85-64e8-cb4a-c5f8-9abb2556e5e5@users.sourceforge.net> <8ae240fa-7f77-8f4c-225c-853cdda73a67@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <817fcf72-cd9d-bf5b-ce83-ce2844e3e901@users.sourceforge.net> <533d608d-c502-824f-9c79-880e387f4d09@linux.vnet.ibm.com> From: SF Markus Elfring Message-ID: <5e7d7252-16d8-0232-c78a-8e01f89e52d8@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:14:30 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <533d608d-c502-824f-9c79-880e387f4d09@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:8cPLpbRssfoLEjs+GUNmj8kVuwrjCC1WmC0Qrzxn6rYlptQuKm3 7K/e8QPyyC1sq3/7LyLXhe5nv2x+f5FLgbXQA7Kczj8rYWhbmjVOGSrd+WMRGORvZ2/C9RT f1tdeeMDVZ6Hpsc4VGTSrbJhBdlnBdKjvNxCRpqRpZxNXSohoMAStfAPa/06MiBr2F1BOaB PyLq0Nqp5QvAe/aj0r5XA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:yZndUG5I0wU=:zpyyyYm7Ew90MOnJEwNQnE EgkY5EFj/UnyLOhG4zF3/6fnyJctuEaFKZ3cmyDG3ZuBr/I3RklJDlrbPWwapeemyvQmy7Mo9 /0urITN4pq6KLm0f5eHnTVfhX2iMU/HQ7F6Z0Ta79nNbZS3AgyhqPZvv5pX6Lna50+0acL4EZ tuMNKKNrdm5/9oShia1UzfEr0kSw8g2tGdjiLl2GcfVTB67L4o2pbxziQRjFx2HNIV9z+0Chp O5LLC9tBrofoihyXN22GGWBg/uvARze8WBY2qiaf7AFzQgMZxM+ym4tXLchUMDsIFLZjjpPdx I5palb2VH+jIW1G6rrk/qbFHZbE9+5BqltcUsc9KyOlJzSl+oHmnSsm2ljPfP+XzmmDKsqHg4 2Dc7nGpKNgbfwN0tEH0glFmUWJ4/JS10XjjpzgW3XOzt2oG3ubdiGpr4QhNjuFgCn4wX7QGBQ 7damdvDB/QecaLoT55UZ4voy0SfAlus9KpPSfWdw76Dfymp5dkSdhFEnDs34JyLIQ6GzKgl2G dCJ5f1g6vhayNVV62dYFh9tHy8NgGbLkbsPSxTkk/Y1yjvtBuj0n+pjnacT3ZPRZsOZKrRVV3 r/4TWQuQfIie9awOC4+UWjfO0paAzV7dWRB4+gcel+a8B4QD/jDNbXd0cih4on2hy5cWw9uek ppBBDIvm3jRsCEQ4tIPQ+kwx1ROk6kFFppFlV4HBX9DwVn9cWD4jhfTHmy6d/cbfSod81ZNt2 nXl0JQ6z3u/zcWlIiavXNTqbPkd5AzZ7kkC6GDd8YdRSknVvoEToRIyznuHfpqSTBRf/qvypq ENG55FlhlRTKfu4R6HYZfl38y/czVh7hXYGqHz3fa042duR1RU= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > So, what do you prefer? Send it yourself, I became concerned that “my patch” would not get picked up because of Greg's communication settings (for my initial messages when they do not get resent by other contributors). > or want me to send it with your sign-off too? (since was your idea). I would prefer this variant because I assume that the chances for integration are higher for the discussed small source code adjustment. I guess that the tag “Suggested-by” would be sufficient in this case. Regards, Markus