> That said, you might end having only fragment of log in only one of thousands > And saying technician he needs to use another kernel (upgrade all machines) > and wait another several weeks for bug to trigger is no way. This was not really my intention here. > So until evolution reaches ARM land, my point stands unchanged: > Make it single allocation Did I indicate a similar design direction (for the preferred stack trace convenience) after your constructive feedback? > or leave one of those two messages in place. Are there any more preferences involved? > In practice it probably does not matter if we know which allocation > failed. We simply run out of memmory. Would anybody insist to know for which driver instance an allocation attempt was performed? >> Does your update suggestion contain still any additional error messages for >> memory allocation failures? > > Of course not as there will be only one memory allocation in the probe function. Thanks for this clarification. - So I hope that your solution approach will be also fine. Will it supersede my proposal? Regards, Markus -- 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