From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/3] mfd/omap-usb-tll: Delete two error messages for a failed memory allocation in usbtll_omap_probe()
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:12:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cadb0da1-23d0-f629-8dcf-8d2566058812@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180115174122.GA20745@lenoch>
> That said, you might end having only fragment of log in only one of thousands
> And saying technician he needs to use another kernel (upgrade all machines)
> and wait another several weeks for bug to trigger is no way.
This was not really my intention here.
> So until evolution reaches ARM land, my point stands unchanged:
> Make it single allocation
Did I indicate a similar design direction (for the preferred stack trace
convenience) after your constructive feedback?
> or leave one of those two messages in place.
Are there any more preferences involved?
> In practice it probably does not matter if we know which allocation
> failed. We simply run out of memmory.
Would anybody insist to know for which driver instance an allocation attempt
was performed?
>> Does your update suggestion contain still any additional error messages for
>> memory allocation failures?
>
> Of course not as there will be only one memory allocation in the probe function.
Thanks for this clarification. - So I hope that your solution approach
will be also fine. Will it supersede my proposal?
Regards,
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-15 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-15 13:14 [PATCH 0/3] mfd/omap-usb-tll: Adjustments for usbtll_omap_probe() SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-15 13:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] mfd/omap-usb-tll: Delete two error messages for a failed memory allocation in usbtll_omap_probe() SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-15 13:41 ` Ladislav Michl
2018-01-15 15:34 ` Roger Quadros
2018-01-15 15:38 ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-15 16:05 ` Ladislav Michl
2018-01-15 16:21 ` [1/3] " SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-15 16:35 ` Ladislav Michl
2018-01-15 17:06 ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-15 17:41 ` Ladislav Michl
2018-01-15 18:12 ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2018-01-15 18:30 ` Ladislav Michl
2018-01-15 19:04 ` mfd/omap-usb-tll: Allocate driver data at once " SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-15 19:23 ` Ladislav Michl
2018-01-15 19:40 ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-15 19:26 ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-15 19:33 ` Ladislav Michl
2018-01-15 13:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] mfd/omap-usb-tll: Improve a size determination " SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-22 15:50 ` Lee Jones
2018-01-15 13:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] mfd/omap-usb-tll: Return an error code only as a constant " SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-22 15:50 ` Lee Jones
2018-01-23 13:04 ` Lee Jones
2018-01-23 14:43 ` [3/3] " SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-23 15:04 ` Lee Jones
2018-01-23 17:13 ` Ladislav Michl
2018-01-24 15:16 ` Lee Jones
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