On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 03:11:45PM +0530, santosh nayak wrote: >> - dev_wds = kmalloc( sizeof( struct net_device ), GFP_KERNEL ); >> - memset( dev_wds, 0, sizeof( struct net_device )); >> + dev_wds = kzalloc(sizeof(struct net_device), GFP_KERNEL); >> + if (unlikely(!dev_wds)) { >> + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to alloc memory\n", __func__); > > Don't resend, but kmalloc() already prints out way more extensive > and useful error messages than this. No need to print an error > message yourself normally. > Do you mean in the following format ? + if (unlikely(!dev_wds)) { + DBG_LEAVE(DbgInfo); + return; + } regards Santosh > regards, > dan carpenter > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html