linux-kernel - Re: ARM-SMMU: Delete error messages for a failed memory allocation in three functions

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:12:07 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Jörg Rödel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ARM-SMMU: Delete error messages for a failed memory allocation in
 three functions

>> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:30:17 +0100
>>
>> Omit extra messages for a memory allocation failure in these functions.
> 
> Why?

Do you find the wording “WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message”
(from the script “checkpatch.pl”) more reasonable?


> This may as well be "delete some stuff because I feel like it".

Do you find the Linux allocation failure report insufficient
in this use case?

Regards,
Markus