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 15:55:37 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Jörg Rödel <joro@...tes.org>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc:     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()

>> 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.

Do you need any more background information for this general transformation pattern?


> The messages give the user/developer useful information about what the memory
> that failed to allocate would have been used for.

Do you find the Linux allocation failure report insufficient for this use case?

Regards,
Markus