Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752325AbdLFUUK (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2017 15:20:10 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-f67.google.com ([209.85.215.67]:42057 "EHLO mail-lf0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751815AbdLFUUI (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2017 15:20:08 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMbgYsvBrIyoYK3cTQuHTJV429AmrIklVdClP3XwBjwAmPs4SxyAhTljtAx3L7dxijW7bEIn3oJcxiadRLnql70= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <97b0eeb8-834e-61ca-01dd-afbbf18697db@users.sourceforge.net> References: <659939f3-da51-0cfd-2eb2-8a726cb1a42f@users.sourceforge.net> <97b0eeb8-834e-61ca-01dd-afbbf18697db@users.sourceforge.net> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 21:20:05 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: glohPpstS0KlMz4UiEz8B7y_JBQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: USB: hub: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in usb_hub_clear_tt_buffer() To: SF Markus Elfring Cc: USB list , Alan Stern , Daniel Drake , Dmitry Fleytman , Eugene Korenevsky , Greg Kroah-Hartman , =?UTF-8?B?R8O8bnRlciBSw7Zjaw==?= , Johan Hovold , Mathias Nyman , Peter Chen , LKML , "kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 28 Hi Markus, On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:51 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote: >> The system will come to a grinding halt anyway if it can't allocate 24 or 40 bytes. > > Maybe. Since you've been sending zillions of patches for this, perhaps the time is ripe to actually try to trigger this, and see what happens? >> Which is BTW more or less the amount of memory saved by killing >> the useless (error) message. > > Would you dare to resend this update suggestion after such a view? Of course. That was implied. 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