linux-kernel - [PATCH] [media] si2168: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in si2168

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Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 20:20:38 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Antti Palosaari <crope@....fi>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [media] si2168: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in si2168_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 19:50:45 +0200

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

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2168.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2168.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2168.c
index 172fc367ccaa..41d9c513b7e8 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2168.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2168.c
@@ -697,6 +697,5 @@ static int si2168_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 	if (!dev) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		dev_err(&client->dev, "kzalloc() failed\n");
 		goto err;
 	}
 
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2.14.1