linux-kernel - [PATCH] mfd/max8997: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in max8997_i2c_parse_dt

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:40:23 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mfd/max8997: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in max8997_i2c_parse_dt_pdata()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:35:17 +0100

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/mfd/max8997.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/max8997.c b/drivers/mfd/max8997.c
index 2d6e2c392786..3f554c447521 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/max8997.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/max8997.c
@@ -148,10 +148,8 @@ static struct max8997_platform_data *max8997_i2c_parse_dt_pdata(
 	struct max8997_platform_data *pd;
 
 	pd = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*pd), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!pd) {
-		dev_err(dev, "could not allocate memory for pdata\n");
+	if (!pd)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	}
 
 	pd->ono = irq_of_parse_and_map(dev->of_node, 1);
 
-- 
2.15.1