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

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Thu Oct 24 14:45:39 EDT 2013


On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:37 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi 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.
> 
> No, please don't. The kzalloc may get changed in the future to not dump
> stack (that was added originally because not everyone was handling OOM
> properly, right?), input core might get changed to use something else
> than kzalloc, etc, etc.
> 
> The majority of errors use dev_err so we also get idea what device
> failed (if there are several), and more.

I think that's not valuable as input_allocate_device already has
dozens of locations that don't emit a specific OOM and centralizing
the location for any generic message would work anyway.






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