Re: [PATCH 4/8] input: Remove OOM message after input_allocate_device

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:43:38AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 20:26 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Hello Joe,
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:14:50PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Emitting an OOM message isn't necessary after input_allocate_device
> > > as there's a generic OOM and a dump_stack already done.
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > diff --git a/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c b/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c
> > > index 005d852..3b9c709 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c
> > > @@ -254,8 +254,6 @@ static int as5011_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
> > >  	as5011 = kmalloc(sizeof(struct as5011_device), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >  	input_dev = input_allocate_device();
> > >  	if (!as5011 || !input_dev) {
> > > -		dev_err(&client->dev,
> > > -			"Can't allocate memory for device structure\n");
> > Don't know if that can happen, but if as5011 is NULL but input_dev isn't
> > the message would still be sensible, wouldn't it? There are several more
> > that suffer the same "problem".
> 
> Any k.alloc without __GFP_NOWARN does a generic OOM message
> and a dump_stack() so there could already be 2 messages anyway.
Then mention that in the commit log if you still want this patch?!

Best regards
Uwe

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