> If making changes like this I would suggest only sending one until > you have have a response from the relevant maintainer.
The corresponding feedback can become more positive for such a transformation pattern after a while, can't it? > It would save you time as often these sorts of changes are > a matter of personal taste and weighing up of costs vs gains > - hence it is not obvious that they will be accepted. Can the wording “WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message” (from the script “checkpatch.pl”) be another incentive? Regards, Markus