linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Missing failure handling

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Date:	Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:29:43 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	takis@...umba.uhasselt.be (Panagiotis Issaris)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Missing failure handling

Panagiotis Issaris writes:

> -	cardmap_set(&all_ppp_units, unit, ppp);
> +	ret = cardmap_set(&all_ppp_units, unit, ppp);
> +	if (ret != 0) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "PPP: couldn't set cardmap\n");	

This is a pretty useless message, in that it will mean nothing to a
user who sees it.  It would be better to set ret = -ENOMEM and not
print the message, I think.

Paul.
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