linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] clocksource: em_sti: remove unnecessary OOM messages

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Date:	Thu, 22 May 2014 10:27:03 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>
Cc:	"'Daniel Lezcano'" <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	"'Thomas Gleixner'" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"'Shinya Kuribayashi'" <shinya.kuribayashi.px@...esas.com>,
	"'Magnus Damm'" <damm@...nsource.se>,
	"'Viresh Kumar'" <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	"'Laurent Pinchart'" <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	"'Joe Perches'" <joe@...ches.com>,
	"'Thierry Reding'" <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] clocksource: em_sti: remove unnecessary OOM messages

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 01:55:20PM +0900, Jingoo Han wrote:
> On Monday, May 19, 2014 7:48 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > On 04/29/2014 10:26 AM, Jingoo Han wrote:
> > > The site-specific OOM messages are unnecessary, because they
> > > duplicate the MM subsystem generic OOM message.
> > 
> > Are you sure the MM subsys display a message when an allocation fails ?
> > 
> > There are multiple reasons an allocation can fail.
> 
> (+cc Viresh Kumar, Laurent Pinchart, Dan Carpenter, Joe Perches,
>        Thierry Reding, Andrew Morton)
> 
> There was a discussion about this in other threads. [1]
> Please refer to the following link. Thank you.
> 
> [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/324158/
> 

Yes yes.  These are the right things to do, no need to add me to the CC
list, Jingoo.

Someone was going to give a talk on removing these as part of their
kernel smallification project or something...

regards,
dan carpenter

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