On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 10:12 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > The real problem is that the kernel development community doesn't have > a fixed policy on how to handle memory allocation errors. [] > If there was one agreed-upon policy, then we could definitively point > to old code and say "That's wrong, and here is how it should be fixed." > But currently this is not possible, and we end up with repetitive > discussions like this one that aren't of general use. Well stated. My preferred policy would be to remove all the individual allocation failure messages and only use the generic warn_alloc()/dump_stack() mechanism. -- 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
