I'm starting to grow quite weary of these "unnecessary check" changes. Sometimes it is better to have them, either because the path is a hot path or some atomic sequence is involved. But there is never harm in them being there. All of this is a matter of taste, of course. But one thing I know for sure, it is undisputable that there are much more important things to work on than this kind of stuff... So I'm not applying these changes any more and directing my time and effort to reviewing and applying patches that fix bugs, really restructure the code in useful ways that increase maintainability over the long time, and add interesting new features. These patches do none of the above. -- 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