Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: USB: hub: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in usb_hub_clear_tt_buffer() | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:20:52 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 10:12 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > The real problem is that the kernel development community doesn't have > a fixed policy on how to handle memory allocation errors. [] > If there was one agreed-upon policy, then we could definitively point > to old code and say "That's wrong, and here is how it should be fixed." > But currently this is not possible, and we end up with repetitive > discussions like this one that aren't of general use.
Well stated.
My preferred policy would be to remove all the individual allocation failure messages and only use the generic warn_alloc()/dump_stack() mechanism.
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