Received: by 2002:a25:4158:0:0:0:0:0 with SMTP id o85csp656456yba; Mon, 1 Apr 2019 14:02:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqzZA9auXEzuFTw154ZJI90gAlyjNTtMVLpHbG6cJrnPxI+fD9US/znaSbfK9/HrTx5IxUKF X-Received: by 2002:a63:195f:: with SMTP id 31mr52681899pgz.116.1554152577272; Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:02:57 -0700 (PDT) ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1554152577; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=eCTmTTh1xVwbywCR3u2lNgsNx2Q5EztYGj8nmqwjl5fdjUxCVKtJBeQCiCMWU7cfnO GxORSc6NxSvphWRnDQIeCMXUDBt06VWndwqt00Un2bbaXvKQblhL3nzJrTqBrsSDOINC 8uIOQzZ0upLtTM5/D6HJ9cXJzzIk/L/FAVSYQ9AMd5f2NDkBBgXpBM7fCBJYH42dc8Uq 9ewsZFmAymPYNhEyHAcxBhCHnTWMlS0iLyq/AEl3TZg1iexpVQ73y9+dwSy6WvisXqON bNEZTXsq5cfolAQYpzzE6ikzh0DhEEKjXsyZ8H/VxyOQqZSBlVVqlRljOOnlsrFAMHqQ Togg== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=list-id:precedence:sender:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :organization:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from :date; bh=yECCKM9SXjsBSz7qZfE0s5/2Rchots6/+Wx1yf/3elE=; b=RBomJWn8aGIQ3f894j7EgTZBrfItzCeDyjIXSHdwQFyDcbqLmFHOzPf1KXL+as1TUv HECgWX7lphajYTCkSd3hhvd4v/oN5jxwCWvcq9nzD+dh+B+XI4Akg1GJimQJnG3vJJOX m3gDxg3u7cjjXDfvLGuoi9I1dDfOXnJWTnQ5nmmBbLjVcuG8QCe2VKzU3kGkDjJItdjJ BHjACELvIQ/8Q9KbiG3owrtq8qInB+PDNo2KYxEWU7mk2+H7b7pLfrScxPOxLS94YF3d HeCM5wlM0ZqWSEqPwmeJ5DQJA3ZkuJyAhcoJ5AdcGrsEVxW+M5tBCMX0OM8wkfaoMgsb DmGA== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org. [209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id s29si9633148pga.152.2019.04.01.14.02.40; Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727447AbfDAVBw (ORCPT + 99 others); Mon, 1 Apr 2019 17:01:52 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:40668 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725878AbfDAVBv (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Apr 2019 17:01:51 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4E3777DE; Mon, 1 Apr 2019 21:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 15:01:50 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Joe Perches Cc: Nick Crews , LKML , linux-doc Subject: Re: [PATCH] coding-style.rst: Generic alloc functions do not need OOM logging Message-ID: <20190401150150.23d2a0f0@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <5d7229de06286b4ec06daee3411e39e9b638d66c.camel@perches.com> References: <5d7229de06286b4ec06daee3411e39e9b638d66c.camel@perches.com> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 10:25:03 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > Generic allocation functions already emit a dump_stack() > so additional error logging isn't useful. > > Document it as such and add a reference to the allocation > API. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Applied, thanks. jon