linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: ethernet: ave: Remove unnecessary 'out of memory' message

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Message-ID: <81841486-b0c2-4f12-b4d5-08fe214f18d9@lunn.ch>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 19:32:49 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Kunihiko Hayashi <hayashi.kunihiko@...ionext.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: ethernet: ave: Remove unnecessary 'out of
 memory' message

On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 03:46:40PM +0900, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
> Follow the warning from checkpatch.pl and remove 'out of memory' message.
> 
>     WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
>     #590: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c:590:
>     +               if (!skb) {
>     +                       netdev_err(ndev, "can't allocate skb for Rx\n");

Please take a read of

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-netdev.html

You tagged this for net, not net-next. I would say this is not a fix.

    Andrew

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