linux-kernel - Re: omapfb/dss: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in three functions

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Message-ID: <502de06b-ca86-d0ff-bd50-d260fbe46fe5@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:27:08 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: omapfb/dss: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in three functions

>> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in these functions.
…
> nak, unlike many others, these message give extra info on which
> allocation failed, that can be useful.

Can a default allocation failure report provide the information
which you might expect so far?

Regards,
Markus