Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: rtl8723au: Remove unnecessary OOM message

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Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
>> Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > This patch reduces the kernel size by removing error messages that duplicate
>> > the normal OOM message.
>> >
>> > A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as
>> > follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr)
>>
>> This patch removes useful warnings about what allocation failed. The
>> messages removed are NOT duplicate!
>
> Is it really the case that the information can't be reconstructed from the
> information generated by kmalloc on failure?  To my understanding there is
> a stack trace, and from scanning through the changes I see only one change
> per function, so perhaps the stack trace already makes it clear where the
> problem occurred?

It may be possible to backtrack, but this change just makes it harder.

There are tons of real issues to fix in this driver, this patch just
increases the risk of patch conflicts for no real gain.

Jes
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