netdev - Re: [PATCH] qed: Remove OOM messages

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Date:   Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:28:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     joe@...ches.com
Cc:     Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com, Ariel.Elior@...gic.com,
        everest-linux-l2@...gic.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qed: Remove OOM messages

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Fri,  2 Sep 2016 10:48:47 -0700

> These messages are unnecessary as OOM allocation failures already do
> a dump_stack() giving more or less the same information.
> 
> $ size drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/built-in.o* (defconfig x86-64)
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>  126849	  27968	  32800	 187617	  2dce1	drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/built-in.o.new
>  131506	  27968	  32800	 192274	  2ef12	drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/built-in.o.old
> 
> Miscellanea:
> 
> o Change allocs to the generally preferred forms where possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>

Joe can you respin this against net-next?

It applies against 'net' but this isn't really a critical bug fix and
it'll also create conflicts against net-next.

Thanks.