> I understand it can be frustrating to encounter different policies > across kernel maintainers. The change acceptance is varying for special transformation patterns. > You'll even run in to this with maintainers of the same subsystem > from time to time. Interesting, isn't it? > I'm supportive of cleaning up old code in general, Nice. > and we routinely apply such patches as these developed with cocci. Good to know … > 1. This is init code )so any space savings is short lived) Would you dare to achieve another small improvement there? > So it isn't that we place a low value on coding style guidelines, > but rather we place higher value on not perturbing code I can follow this view in principle. > we can't fully test without a demonstrable functional reasons to do so. How do you think about to get a bit nicer run time characteristics? Regards, Markus
