* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/07/17 19:12, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 19:00:09 +0200 > > > > A few update suggestions were taken into account > > from static source code analysis. > > > > Markus Elfring (4): > > Combine two function calls into one in show_cacheinfo() > > Use seq_putc() in show_cpu_summary() > > Replace six seq_printf() calls by seq_puts() > > Combine two function calls into one at four places > > > > arch/s390/kernel/cache.c | 4 ++-- > > arch/s390/kernel/processor.c | 2 +- > > arch/s390/kernel/sysinfo.c | 25 +++++++++++-------------- > > 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > > > I'm sorry, I wouldn't normally respond to this, but I was put on the Cc > after all so I'll give my feedback. > > I think these patches are a waste of time and a resources. Agreed. > It would be different if your patches fixed actual bugs. This is just mindless > code transformations that MAY in the best case save a few bytes of code here and > there (I don't know; you didn't say). ... they might also be acceptable if they came from a genuine newbie who does his first patch, or if these patches represented genuine interest in the subsystem in question, by being part of a larger work that adds new features or does some meaningful code transformations. They don't: they are Cocceline generated trivial patches from all around the kernel, and there's probably thousands of such 'problems' in the kernel - do we really want the churn of thousands of patches? The cost of individual patches might be small, but their cumulative effect is non-trivial if we add up all the extra noise and overhad this adds to the kernel development flow. > But the potential gains from these incredibly numerous and tiny patches that > don't fix anything are so small, it's a waste of time, bandwidth, and mental > capacity for you and for everybody involved. > > I just searched my inbox for patches from you and you sent literally _hundreds_ > over the past few days, all doing this crazy printf/puts/putc transformation. > > Another bit of searching and I see that I'm not the first one giving you this > response: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/23/383 - Jens Axboe > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/23/262 - Johannes Thumshirn > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/12/513 - Cyrille Pitchen > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/24/491 - Theodore Ts'o > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/7/148 - Dan Carpenter > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/14/58 - Christian Borntraeger > > ...and I'm sure there are many more. I'm ignoring these minimal effort patches for subsystems I maintain and I suggest other maintainers do the same. Thanks, Ingo -- 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
