netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: atm: Replace kmalloc with kzalloc in the error message

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Message-ID: <5e2d3852-9b10-e918-c50a-2a11a46472d8@web.de>
Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 19:54:19 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@....com.cn>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>,
        Wang Liang <wang.liang82@....com.cn>,
        Yi Wang <wang.yi59@....com.cn>,
        Xue Zhihong <xue.zhihong@....com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: atm: Replace kmalloc with kzalloc in the error
 message

> Looking into the context (atomic!) and error message itself I would rather drop
> message completely.

How do you think about to take another look at a previous update suggestion
like the following?

net/atm: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in five functions
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/5270f15b-5e97-0c3e-3e55-fbded48ae07d@users.sourceforge.net/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5270f15b-5e97-0c3e-3e55-fbded48ae07d@users.sourceforge.net/
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/838867/
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/9/1009

Regards,
Markus