Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf tools: Do proper comm override error handling

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Wed Jan 15 2014 - 00:54:35 EST


Hi Frederic,

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:37:14 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> The comm overriding API ignores memory allocation failures by silently
> keeping the previous and out of date comm.
>
> As a result, the user may get buggy events without ever being notified
> about the problem and its source.
>
> Lets start to fix this by propagating the error from the API. Not all
> callers may be doing proper error handling on comm set yet but this
> is the first step toward it.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Namhyung
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