From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>,
linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][V2][next] rtc: ds1307: check for failed memory allocation on wdt
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 11:45:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200403084504.GZ2001@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200402145312.GN3683@piout.net>
On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 04:53:12PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
>
> As stated, I also prefer keeping the watchdog optional and ignore the
> error.
Hopefully you aren't running out of memory on start up. In current
kernels small memory allocations like this never fail so it doesn't
really affect runtime. It only silences the NULL dereference static
checker warning.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-03 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-02 13:52 [PATCH][V2][next] rtc: ds1307: check for failed memory allocation on wdt Colin King
2020-04-02 14:39 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-04-02 14:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-04-02 14:53 ` Alexandre Belloni
2020-04-03 8:45 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2020-04-03 9:22 ` Alexandre Belloni
2020-04-03 10:01 ` Colin Ian King
2020-04-02 19:51 ` Chris Packham
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