linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Intel-IOMMU: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in init

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Date:   Sat, 20 Jan 2018 14:34:52 +0100
From:   Jörg Rödel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel-IOMMU: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in init_dmars()

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 02:00:13PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 13:51:49 +0100
> 
> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

NACK on this one and the other two IOMMU patches you sent. The messages
give the user/developer useful information about what the memory that
failed to allocate would have been used for.


	Joerg