netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net_sched: prio: properly report out of memory errors

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Date:	Sun, 12 Jun 2016 21:57:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net_sched: prio: properly report out of memory
 errors

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 16:21:47 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> At Qdisc creation or change time, prio_tune() creates missing
> pfifo qdiscs but does not return an error code if one
> qdisc could not be allocated.
> 
> Leaving a qdisc in non operational state without telling user
> anything about this problem is not good.
> 
> Also, testing if we replace something different than noop_qdisc
> a second time makes no sense so I removed useless code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.