On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:37 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Joe, > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:14:50PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > Emitting an OOM message isn't necessary after input_allocate_device > > as there's a generic OOM and a dump_stack already done. > > No, please don't. The kzalloc may get changed in the future to not dump > stack (that was added originally because not everyone was handling OOM > properly, right?), input core might get changed to use something else > than kzalloc, etc, etc. > > The majority of errors use dev_err so we also get idea what device > failed (if there are several), and more. I think that's not valuable as input_allocate_device already has dozens of locations that don't emit a specific OOM and centralizing the location for any generic message would work anyway. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
