From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>,
"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
"Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>,
Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: omapfb/dss: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in three functions
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:56:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWqrTw80_t8Jr_ejzcLevXdxr-gnYgOQhk1-Mhn+v=A=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e90409f-fcb0-cdb6-9bc3-26ad30a1f7c9@users.sourceforge.net>
Hi Markus,
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 7:12 PM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>> Can a default allocation failure report provide the information
>>> which you might expect so far?
>>
>> You should be able to answer that question yourself.
>
> I can not answer this detail completely myself because my knowledge
> is incomplete about your concrete expectations for the exception handling
> which can lead to different views for the need of additional error messages.
It may be a good idea to try to trigger an out-of-memory condition yourself,
and see what happens?
>> And if you are unable to do so, just do not sent changes pointed
>> by any code analysis tools.
>
> They can point aspects out for further software development considerations,
> can't they?
Sure. But I think it is a good experience to witness what can happen if you
"violate" these "coding standards written by other people", and learn to
understand why they were written, increasing your own knowledge.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-27 18:56 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 [this message]
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
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