cleanups for input

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Nov 16 2003 - 08:10:13 EST


Hi!

I know cleanups are not wanted just now, but I'd like this queued...

GFP_ATOMIC can fail at any time; I believe we do not want "heisenbugs"
so we should at least warn.

[serio_rescan() does not return error value yet it can fail. It seems
pretty broken to me :-(.]

--- tmp/linux/drivers/input/serio/serio.c 2003-09-28 22:05:48.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/drivers/input/serio/serio.c 2003-11-15 20:41:24.000000000 +0100
@@ -134,8 +134,10 @@
{
struct serio_event *event;

- if (!(event = kmalloc(sizeof(struct serio_event), GFP_ATOMIC)))
+ if (!(event = kmalloc(sizeof(struct serio_event), GFP_ATOMIC))) {
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "Could not rescan serio: out of memory\n");
return;
+ }

event->type = SERIO_RESCAN;
event->serio = serio;
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