Re: [PATCH 6/7] drivers/serial/ioc3_serial.c: Return -ENOMEM onmemory allocation failure

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:00:09PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> 
> In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other
> failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values.
> 
> A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
> follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Dunno why linux-mips rsp. myself keep receiving patches for the ioc3 serial
driver - it's only being used on SGI IA64 machines.

Either way, I'm willing to funnel this patch upstream - I'm building a
pull rq for tonight anyway.

  Ralf
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