linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] ISDN-Gigaset: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation

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Message-ID: <1475062958.16606.31.camel@tiscali.nl>
Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:42:38 +0200
From:   Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:     Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>,
        SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     gigaset307x-common@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] ISDN-Gigaset: Delete an error message for a failed
 memory allocation

On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 12:57 +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016, at 17:42, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this
> > function.
> > 
> > Link:
> > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-R
> > efactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> 
> The patch is fine but the link in the commit message is irrelevant.
> Please remove it.
> (Yes, I read through the whole presentation to verify that. It was fun,
> even.)

Agree.

Except this patch assumes the superfluous braces would be removed in
4/5. But it turns out that other patch must be dropped. It would have
been better to remove the braces in this patch.


Paul Bolle