Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc2

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Sat Mar 26 2005 - 16:00:59 EST


On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:44:53PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:22 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Marcelo,
> >
> > here's a patch from Dave Jones, which is already in 2.6 and which I've
> > used in my local tree for 6 months now. It removes a useless NULL check
> > in zlib_inflateInit2_(), since 'z' is already dereferenced one line
> > before the test. Can in go in 2.4.30 please ?
>
> I don't see how such a cleanup-only patch would be a candidate for 2.4
> at all, let alone to go into a -rc3 or a 2.4.30 final at this stage...
>
> Can you explain why this one is so important that it has to go in so
> late?

I second.

Willy, please resend the other ones for 2.4.31-pre ok?

Should have held the JFS one also.

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