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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] trivial: Changed the printk loglevel when not able to allocate memory
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On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 04:19 +0100, anish singh wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> On 17 May 2011 18:29, anish <anish198519851985@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When not able to allocate memory we were using KERN_INFO as
> > log level in printk so changed to KERN_ERR
> > Signed-off-by: anish kumar<anish198519851985@gmail.com>
>
>
> Maybe KERN_WARN?
> Then shouldn't we change below case also?
> 467 ret = amba_request_regions(dev, NULL);
> 468 if (ret) {
> 469 printk(KERN_ERR "CLCD: unable to reserve regs region\n");
> 470 goto out;
>
> If yes,then i will resend the patch for this also.

I think the register reserving is less likely to fail because of memory
allocations but more because of overlapping regions, in which case it
could be a programming error.

Allocating a big framebuffer is likely to fail in some memory constraint
systems but I don't consider this a kernel error. That's why I suggested
warning.

--
Catalin




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