linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] char/bsr: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in bsr_add

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Date:   Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:08:28 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] char/bsr: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in bsr_add_node()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 21:12:34 +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/char/bsr.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/bsr.c b/drivers/char/bsr.c
index a6cef548e01e..865eb457e539 100644
--- a/drivers/char/bsr.c
+++ b/drivers/char/bsr.c
@@ -203,7 +203,6 @@ static int bsr_add_node(struct device_node *bn)
 		int result;
 
 		if (!cur) {
-			printk(KERN_ERR "Unable to alloc bsr dev\n");
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out_err;
 		}
-- 
2.14.2