>> This is a small allocation so it can't fail in current kernels. I can't >> imagine a situation where this could fail and it wasn't dead easy to >> debug. Most modules are loaded at boot so it's not likely to fail, but >> if it did, it would be easy to reproduce. If it's not loaded at boot >> it's probably really easy to tell which module we're loading. > > Yeah, good points. And on second thought, we normally don't print > warnings for every small alloc failure in the kernel anyway (that > would be utterly superfluous), the error code itself is sufficient. > And in the module loader this seems to be the only printk out of the > dozen alloc calls we do, so I'm OK with removing this one. Thanks for your constructive feedback. Can it help to improve the corresponding documentation for Linux programming interfaces a bit more? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
