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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel/module: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in add_module_usage()
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:35:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1dee801c-37b5-4d72-b33f-ebdc135b4f25@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1508412567.6806.36.camel@perches.com>

>>>> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
>>>>
>>>> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
>>>
>>> Applied to modules-next, thanks.
>>
>> Thanks for your acceptance of this update suggestion after a bit of clarification.
>>
>> Do you see any need that I should extend subsequent commit messages
>> for this software transformation pattern?
> 
> Add a description of _why_ this is being done.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> "because there is a dump_stack() done on allocation failures
>  without __GFP_JNOWARN"

How do you think about to convert such a description into a special format
for further reference documentation?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-19 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-06 15:12 [PATCH] kernel/module: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in add_module_usage() SF Markus Elfring
2017-10-19  9:29 ` Jessica Yu
2017-10-19 10:30   ` Dan Carpenter
2017-10-19 11:02     ` Jessica Yu
2017-10-19 11:12       ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-10-19 10:42   ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-10-19 11:08 ` Jessica Yu
2017-10-19 11:18   ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-10-19 11:29     ` Joe Perches
2017-10-19 11:35       ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2017-10-19 11:45         ` Joe Perches
2017-10-19 18:56           ` SF Markus Elfring

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