From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>,
Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>,
Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Subject: Re: omapfb/dss: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in three functions
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 19:20:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21554e23-e714-3f6f-cd70-4c277823bab3@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1511856244.19952.14.camel@perches.com>
> How many times have I told you to include the reason for your patches
> in your proposed commit message?
Will it be useful to look again at the involved circumstances?
> Too often.
Did I answer any concerns partly?
> Many people do not know that a generic kmalloc does a dump_stack() on OOM.
Do you see a need to represent such information better?
Is it expected that the function “devm_kzalloc” has got a similar property?
> That information should be part of the commit message.
How do you think about to share it also from any reference documentation
in a clearer way?
Do we stumble on a target conflict in this case?
I am generally trying to improve the software situation to some degree.
I prefer then to work with safe information sources.
Unfortunately, I might have not reached a desired confidence level here
for a more detailed commit message. I assume that software development
efforts could increase in significant ways if something should be improved
further in a direction I hope. But this could mean that time frames will
grow for corresponding clarifications.
* Does such a situation block progress on the deletion of other remaining
questionable error messages?
* Would you like to increase the software development attention anyhow?
By the way:
It seems that my update suggestion for the directory “omapfb/dss”
could be superseded by the patch “omapfb: dss: Do not duplicate features data”
from Ladislav Michl.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10082027/
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20171129123308.GA26578@lenoch>
Regards,
Markus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-03 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-26 18:55 [PATCH] omapfb/dss: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in three functions SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-27 16:43 ` Andrew F. Davis
2017-11-27 17:27 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-27 17:44 ` Ladislav Michl
2017-11-27 18:12 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-27 18:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-11-27 19:22 ` Ladislav Michl
2017-11-27 22:20 ` Ladislav Michl
2017-11-27 19:07 ` [PATCH] " Joe Perches
2017-11-27 21:33 ` Andrew F. Davis
2017-11-27 21:45 ` Ladislav Michl
2017-11-27 21:48 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-28 1:45 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-28 7:41 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-28 7:49 ` Julia Lawall
2017-11-28 8:49 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-28 9:26 ` Julia Lawall
2017-11-28 9:56 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-28 8:04 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-28 8:49 ` Ladislav Michl
2017-11-28 9:11 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-28 9:28 ` Julia Lawall
2017-11-28 10:15 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-28 10:23 ` Ladislav Michl
2017-11-28 10:50 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-28 11:41 ` Ladislav Michl
2017-11-28 12:13 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-28 17:50 ` Ladislav Michl
2017-11-28 18:09 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-11-28 14:36 ` Joe Perches
2017-12-03 18:20 ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
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