From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jslaby@suse.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: n_gsm: pr_err() strings should end with newlines
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 05:00:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1507550442.3552.2.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af800ac59ede3886e2b374b3af26789562bfc8ea.1507549348.git.arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 17:14 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> pr_err() messages should end with a new-line to avoid other messages
> being concatenated.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c b/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c
[]
> @@ -2788,7 +2788,7 @@ static int gsm_create_network(struct gsm_dlci *dlci, struct gsm_netconfig *nc)
> net = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct gsm_mux_net), netname,
> NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, gsm_mux_net_init);
> if (!net) {
> - pr_err("alloc_netdev failed");
> + pr_err("alloc_netdev failed\n");
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
> net->mtu = dlci->gsm->mtu;
You could just delete the pr_err instead.
It's an unnecessary message as there would
be a dump_stack() on the kvzalloc() in
alloc_netdev() on any OOM failure.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-09 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-09 11:44 [PATCH] tty: n_gsm: pr_err() strings should end with newlines Arvind Yadav
2017-10-09 12:00 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-10-09 12:02 ` Arvind Yadav
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