Subject: Re: net-PA Semi: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "pci_dev_put"

From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:53:28 +0100

On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 21:34 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:

> > So this kind of evolution is no problem for the (automated) backports
> > using the backports project - although it can be difficult to detect
> > such a thing is needed.
> 
> That is exactly the problem...

I'm not convinced though that it should stop such progress in mainline.

johannes