netdev - Re: [PATCH v4.4-rc8 0/7] isdn: eicon: Silence frame size warnings

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Date:	Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:53:12 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tim.gardner@...onical.com
Cc:	mac@...ware.de, isdn@...ux-pingi.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4.4-rc8 0/7] isdn: eicon: Silence frame size warnings

From: tim.gardner@...onical.com
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2016 05:32:48 -0700

> Following is a patch set to recode various functions within the eicon driver in
> order to silence frame size warnings. The final patch consolidates some of this
> code into a single function which hopefully reduces complexity and the amount
> of code.

If you were just fixing one case of this I wouldn't be so strict but
the following, but because you are changing several such cases I am
going to be.

You have to add appropriate -ENOMEM error propragation and handling
into the callers of these functions.