linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gnss: core: added logging statement when kfifo

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Message-ID: <61c2ba4e229a6971e90627433bedae2dd28ea6a1.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 09 Jul 2019 20:40:48 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Keyur Patel <iamkeyur96@...il.com>
Cc:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnss: core: added logging statement when kfifo_alloc
 fails

On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 19:14 -0400, Keyur Patel wrote:
> Added missing logging statement when kfifo_alloc fails, to improve
> debugging.\

Nack

> diff --git a/drivers/gnss/core.c b/drivers/gnss/core.c
[]
> @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ struct gnss_device *gnss_allocate_device(struct device *parent)
>  
>  	ret = kfifo_alloc(&gdev->read_fifo, GNSS_READ_FIFO_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (ret)
> +		pr_err("kfifo_alloc failed\n");
>  		goto err_put_device;

c is not python.
This will not do what you might expect.
 
>  	gdev->write_buf = kzalloc(GNSS_WRITE_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);