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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 16:42:27 +0000
Subject: Re: vmbus: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in vmbus_device_create()
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To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>, "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>

On Thu, 11 May 2017 18:36:44 +0200
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> > Taking out the message assumes that all callers of this function either log an
> > error or pass appropriate error code back to userspace.  
> 
> Do you like the default error response by Linux memory allocation functions?

The default error message only helps a little.
I doubt this will ever fail anyway since only allocated on boot.