netdev - Re: bonding: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in bond_update_slave

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Message-ID: <f93750d3-700f-897d-c4ef-2cf5b5a3374e@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Wed, 3 Jan 2018 09:45:35 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) <maheshb@...gle.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bonding: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation
 in bond_update_slave_arr()

>> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
>>
>> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>>
> What is the issue with this message?

* Is it redundant?

* Would a Linux allocation failure report be already sufficient here?

Regards,
Markus