linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] spi-bfin5xx: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in bfin_spi

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Date:   Wed, 17 May 2017 13:54:29 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] spi-bfin5xx: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in bfin_spi_setup()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 13:00:34 +0200

Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/spi/spi-bfin5xx.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-bfin5xx.c b/drivers/spi/spi-bfin5xx.c
index 249c7a3677c9..3265f4967d2b 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-bfin5xx.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-bfin5xx.c
@@ -983,6 +983,5 @@ static int bfin_spi_setup(struct spi_device *spi)
 		chip = kzalloc(sizeof(*chip), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!chip) {
-			dev_err(&spi->dev, "cannot allocate chip data\n");
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto error;
 		}
-- 
2.13.0