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

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Message-ID: <34aaa094-daff-4045-b830-1687488c3e8e@socionext.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 09:27:03 +0900
From: Kunihiko Hayashi <hayashi.kunihiko@...ionext.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
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

Hi Andrew,

On 2026/01/09 3:32, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 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.

Thank you for pointing out.
I thought this was a "fix" for the warning, however, it's not a logical
fix. So I'll repost it as net-next.

Thank you,

---
Best Regards
Kunihiko Hayashi