> However I would indeed prefer that a commit description is at least > exhaustive enough for such a dumb reviewer as I am to understand what is > going on right away. I can follow your desire in principle. > So please make it say at least: > > "Remove an extraneous message that duplicates the diagnostic already > provided by `kzalloc' for a memory allocation failure in this function." How much clarification can such a wording bring to the software situation if the desired data structures might be still unclear for “the diagnostic”? > or suchlike in v2 for me to apply a Reviewed-by: tag. Are you interested in a safe description for a default Linux allocation failure report? How do you think about corresponding reference documentation (besides source code)? Regards, Markus