linux-kernel - Re: vmbus: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in vmbus_device

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Date:   Thu, 11 May 2017 09:42:27 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: Re: vmbus: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation
 in vmbus_device_create()

On Thu, 11 May 2017 18:36:44 +0200
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> > Taking out the message assumes that all callers of this function either log an
> > error or pass appropriate error code back to userspace.  
> 
> Do you like the default error response by Linux memory allocation functions?

The default error message only helps a little.
I doubt this will ever fail anyway since only allocated on boot.