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Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:39:57 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] ARM: mvebu: at least report the kzalloc failure
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 05:56:31AM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:

> Note that this will trigger a checkpatch WARNING
> "WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message"
> but comparing the oops with an without the one-line pr_err I would
> argue that it makes sense to include it:

Hi Nicholas

It might be worth adding this as a comment, so that newbies don't
submit patches removing the pr_err() because of the checkpatch
warning.

       Andrew