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Re: [PATCH] usnic: corretly check failed allocation

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On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 01:41:06PM -0400, Insu Yun wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Dave Goodell (dgoodell) <dgoodell@cisco.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > On Oct 15, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Insu Yun <wuninsu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >       us_ibdev->ufdev = usnic_fwd_dev_alloc(dev);
> > > -     if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(us_ibdev->ufdev)) {
> > > +     if (!us_ibdev->ufdev) {
> > >               usnic_err("Failed to alloc ufdev for %s with err %ld\n",
> > >                               pci_name(dev), PTR_ERR(us_ibdev->ufdev));
> >
> > This PTR_ERR and message make less sense now.
> >
> 
>   Do you think what is better? removing error code? or change
> PTR_ERR(us_ibdev->ufdev)
> to -EFAULT

I would write it as:

        usnic_err("Failed to alloc ufdev for %s\n", pci_name(dev));

-Dave
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[PATCH] usnic: corretly check failed allocation Insu Yun <wuninsu@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 18:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] usnic: corretly check failed allocation "Dave Goodell (dgoodell)" <dgoodell@cisco.com> - 2015-10-15 19:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] usnic: corretly check failed allocation Dave Goodell <dgoodell@cisco.com> - 2015-10-15 23:00 +0200

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