linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/9] phy: phy-ti-pipe3: Remove unncessary site specific OOM messages

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Message-Id: <1408106416-19044-5-git-send-email-peter.griffin@linaro.org>
Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:40:11 +0100
From:	Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@...aro.org>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kishon@...com, kgene.kim@...sung.com,
	maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	peter.griffin@...aro.org, patches@...aro.org, lee.jones@...aro.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/9] phy: phy-ti-pipe3: Remove unncessary site specific OOM messages

The site specific OOM messages are unncessary, because they duplicate
messages from the memory subsystem which include dump_stack().

Removing these superflous messages makes the kernel smaller. A discussion
here http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/324158/ found that all error paths
from kzalloc will print a error message, and that any error path which maybe
found which doesn't would be considered a bug in kzalloc.

Signed-off-by: Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@...aro.org>
---
 drivers/phy/phy-ti-pipe3.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-ti-pipe3.c b/drivers/phy/phy-ti-pipe3.c
index b964aa9..9280ef8 100644
--- a/drivers/phy/phy-ti-pipe3.c
+++ b/drivers/phy/phy-ti-pipe3.c
@@ -299,10 +299,9 @@ static int ti_pipe3_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct clk *clk;
 
 	phy = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*phy), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!phy) {
-		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "unable to alloc mem for TI PIPE3 PHY\n");
+	if (!phy)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+
 	phy->dev		= &pdev->dev;
 
 	if (!of_device_is_compatible(node, "ti,phy-pipe3-pcie")) {
-- 
1.9.1

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