Re: [PATCH 2/2] trivial: Changed the printk loglevel when not able to allocate memory

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 11:57 +0100, anish singh wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
>         
>         On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 04:19 +0100, anish singh wrote:
>         > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
>         >         On 17 May 2011 18:29, anish <anish198519851985@gmail.com> wrote:
>         >         > When not able to allocate memory we were using KERN_INFO as
>         >         > log level in printk so changed to KERN_ERR
>         >         >  Signed-off-by: anish kumar<anish198519851985@gmail.com>
>         >
>         >
>         >         Maybe KERN_WARN?
>         > Then shouldn't we change below case also?
>         > 467         ret = amba_request_regions(dev, NULL);
>         > 468         if (ret) {
>         > 469                 printk(KERN_ERR "CLCD: unable to reserve regs region\n");
>         > 470                 goto out;
>         >
>         > If yes,then i will resend the patch for this also.
>         
>         
>         I think the register reserving is less likely to fail because of memory
>         allocations but more because of overlapping regions, in which case it
>         could be a programming error.
>         
>         Allocating a big framebuffer is likely to fail in some memory constraint
>         systems but I don't consider this a kernel error. That's why I suggested
>         warning.
>  
> Got it.So should i change both as KERN_WARN and resend?

No, just the one KERN_INFO one. Anyway, Russell King is the maintainer
of this driver so it's up to him to ack the patch (and don't forget to
cc him).

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Catalin