Re: [PATCH] TC: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in tc_bus_add_devices()

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On Sun, 2017-12-10 at 21:41 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> 
> > Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
> > 
> > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
>  And the problem here is?

Markus' terrible commit messages.

Generically, any OOM via a malloc like call has a dump_stack()
which shows a stack trace unless __GFP_NOWARN is used.

So this message is generally unnecessary as the dump_stack()
will show the tc_bus_add_devices function name and (now hashed)
value of the function address.

What will be different is the particular slot # of the tc_dev
will no longer be shown.

Really though, if there's an OOM on the init, there are larger
problems and the system will be unusable.

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