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Date:   Mon, 1 Apr 2019 15:01:50 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] coding-style.rst: Generic alloc functions do not need
 OOM logging
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On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 10:25:03 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> Generic allocation functions already emit a dump_stack()
> so additional error logging isn't useful.
> 
> Document it as such and add a reference to the allocation
> API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Applied, thanks.

jon