linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] mfd: tps65090: add error prints when mem alloc failed

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Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:33:11 +0530
From:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	"sameo@...ux.intel.com" <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mfd: tps65090: add error prints when mem alloc failed

On Sunday 07 October 2012 09:43 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 20:52 +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>> Add error prints when memory allocation failed for
>> tps65090 data. Also cleanups the melloc arguments.
> The new dev_err is unnecessary.
> A dump_stack is already done on alloc failures.
> The sizeof(* is ok.
>

I think this will also prints the device name for which it fails and so 
when we have multiple device, it will help to find out the failure case.

Thanks,
Laxman
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