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zoran: Don't frighten users with failed buffer allocation

Message ID 20090307110914.5f35d4d2@hyperion.delvare (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Jean Delvare March 7, 2009, 10:09 a.m. UTC 
kmalloc() can fail for large video buffers. By default the kernel
complains loudly about allocation failures, but we don't want to
frighten the user, so ask kmalloc() to keep quiet on such failures.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
---
 linux/drivers/media/video/zoran/zoran_driver.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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--- v4l-dvb.orig/linux/drivers/media/video/zoran/zoran_driver.c	2009-03-02 11:19:20.000000000 +0100
+++ v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/video/zoran/zoran_driver.c	2009-03-02 11:19:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -212,7 +212,8 @@  v4l_fbuffer_alloc (struct file *file)
 				ZR_DEVNAME(zr), i);
 
 		//udelay(20);
-		mem = kmalloc(fh->v4l_buffers.buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		mem = kmalloc(fh->v4l_buffers.buffer_size,
+			      GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
 		if (!mem) {
 			dprintk(1,
 				KERN_ERR