Re: omapfb/dss: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in three functions

Ladislav Michl
2017-11-28T08:49:50Z

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:04:04AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 08:41 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > > > It seems that I got no responses so far for clarification requests
> > > > according to the documentation in a direction I hoped for.
> > >
> > > That's because you are pretty unresponsive to direction.
> >
> > From which places did you get this impression?
>
> How many times have I told you to include the reason for
> your patches in
> your proposed commit message? Too often.
>
> For instance, specific to this patch:
>
> Many people do not know that a generic kmalloc does a
> dump_stack() on OOM. That information should be part
> of the commit message.
>
> Also removing the printk code reduces overall code size.
> The actual size reduction should be described in the
> commit message too.

Could we, please, return one step back and reevaluate need for
kmalloc. That would eliminate original "problem" as well.

ladis