> I gave you very concrete feedback, I said exactly that I don't want > error pointers left in data structure members. I find that your critique affects the proposed update steps four to six, doesn't it? Are the other steps acceptable in principle? > I cannot describe my requirements any more precisely than that. I hope that a bit more constructive suggestions will be contributed by involved software developers around the affected source code. Now it seems that a small code clean-up becomes a more challenging development task. How do you prefer to redesign corresponding data structures eventually? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html