linux-kernel - Re: platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi: Adjustments for four function implementations

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Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:28:05 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@....eng.br>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi: Adjustments for four function implementations

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 6:23 PM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>>   Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in three functions
>>
>> This one is questionable since it prints error messages at ->init() stage.
>> I would rather not touch this.
>
> Do you find the Linux allocation failure report insufficient in this case?

It is up to the current driver maintainer. For me it sounds better to
have than not to.

>>>   Improve a size determination in tpacpi_new_rfkill()
>>
>> Doesn't make any sense right now. One style over the other.
>> Nothing gets better or worth at this point.
>
> Would you like to care for a bit more compliance with information
> from the section “14) Allocating memory” in the document “coding-style.rst”?

You know, in Russian we have an adverb: Заставь дурака б-гу молиться,
он и лоб расшибёт.
Which has English equivalent: Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko