> How many times have I told you to include the reason for > your patches in your proposed commit message? It might be useful to look again. > Too often. I answered this feedback to some degree. > Many people do not know that a generic kmalloc does a > dump_stack() on OOM. This is another interesting information, isn't it? It is expected that the function “devm_kzalloc” has got a similar property. > That information should be part of the commit message. How do you think about to provide it also in any reference documentation in a clearer way? I would be more confident then to copy it into my messages. Do you want that I take your current answer as an official note for my work (instead of waiting for adjustments of other areas)? > Also removing the printk code reduces overall code size. Such an effect can be nice if the involved contributors can agree on the deletion of questionable error messages at all. > The actual size reduction should be described in the > commit message too. For which hardware and software combinations would you like to see facts there? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
