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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tps65090-charger: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in two functions
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:47:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf645236-d4da-a52c-216a-248d76a61025@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1712162135140.17082@hadrien>

>> I am still waiting for possibilities to improve also the corresponding
>> reference documentation somehow as you know it already.
> 
> If you require someone else to update the documentation to be able to
> explain why the patch is useful,

My approach is to refer to the Linux allocation failure report.


> then it would seem that you do not know why the patch is useful,
> and thus should not submit it.

We tried to clarify other explanation approaches a few times.

But it seems that we are stuck with specific software aspects.
How would you like to see remaining open issues to be resolved there anyhow?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-16 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-16 18:43 [PATCH] tps65090-charger: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in two functions SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-16 18:53 ` [PATCH] tps65090-charger: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in two function Joe Perches
2017-12-16 20:30   ` tps65090-charger: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in two functions SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-16 20:36     ` Julia Lawall
2017-12-16 20:47       ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2017-12-18 17:24         ` Sebastian Reichel
2017-12-18 17:32           ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-12-16 20:40     ` Joe Perches
2017-12-16 20:52       ` SF Markus Elfring

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