Hi Raghu,
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 05:11:45PM +0530, RAGHU Halharvi wrote:
> Signed-off-by: RAGHU Halharvi <raghuhac...@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
You should write a commit message, even for trivial patches, which
describes the motivation for the patch. For more complex patches it
should also explain how the changes being made solve a problem, or
clarify anything non-obvious about the way the patched code works.
In general, read Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
> index b225033aade6..5aaf40a1743b 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
> @@ -363,6 +363,8 @@ static void ip22_check_gio(int slotno, unsigned long
> addr, int irq)
> printk(KERN_INFO "GIO: slot %d : %s (id %x)\n",
> slotno, name, id);
> gio_dev = kzalloc(sizeof *gio_dev, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!gio_dev)
> + return -ENOMEM;
One especially important point for patches like this one is to make sure
that your code at least compiles. In this case you try to return an
error code from a function that returns void, which won't work.
Thanks,
Paul
