On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:56:15PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > Dear Sascha Hauer, > > > > > This message is rather useless. It is really not expected for kzalloc > > to fail. If it fails here you really have problems elsewhere and this > > message won't help you debugging it. > > It's not useless, but it'll hardly ever be displayed if you run out of memory so > badly this kzalloc() will fail. If you run out of memory while allocating a few bytes it's really not interesting where exactly this happens. The message won't give you any hint where you can fix this problem. Also, if you bail out of a drivers probe function with -ENOMEM you will have a message in the log anyway. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
