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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Handle alloc_arg failure
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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Hi Steve,

2012-09-19 (수), 08:41 -0400, Steven Rostedt:
> On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 21:26 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > Yeah, I agree.  But I wanted to add a bit more helpful (to developers)
> > info - function name and line number - rather than just "not enough
> > memory" message.  Maybe we could change do_warning to emit such info
> > automatically.
> 
> But these only fail if you run out of memory for the tool. In that case,
> I don't think it's that important which allocation failed.

Okay, I'll send v2 tomorrow according to Ingo's suggestion.

Thanks,
Namhyung