[PATCH] zoran: Don't frighten users with failed buffer allocation

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kmalloc() can fail for large video buffers. By default the kernel
complains loudly about allocation failures, but we don't want to
frighten the user, so ask kmalloc() to keep quiet on such failures.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 linux/drivers/media/video/zoran/zoran_driver.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- v4l-dvb.orig/linux/drivers/media/video/zoran/zoran_driver.c	2009-03-02 11:19:20.000000000 +0100
+++ v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/video/zoran/zoran_driver.c	2009-03-02 11:19:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ v4l_fbuffer_alloc (struct file *file)
 				ZR_DEVNAME(zr), i);
 
 		//udelay(20);
-		mem = kmalloc(fh->v4l_buffers.buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		mem = kmalloc(fh->v4l_buffers.buffer_size,
+			      GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
 		if (!mem) {
 			dprintk(1,
 				KERN_ERR


-- 
Jean Delvare
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