linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] of: Remove comments that state the obvious

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Message-ID: <1477430953.1998.19.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:29:13 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     frowand.list@...il.com, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com,
        Pantelis Antoniou <panto@...oniou-consulting.com>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] of: Remove comments that state the obvious

On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 13:58 -0700, frowand.list@...il.com wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...sony.com>
> 
> Remove comments that state the obvious, to reduce clutter

Some of these removals might be overly aggressive.

> diff --git a/drivers/of/resolver.c b/drivers/of/resolver.c
[]
> @@ -125,7 +114,6 @@ static int __of_adjust_phandle_ref(struct device_node *node,
>  	int offset, propcurlen;
>  	int err = 0;
>  
> -	/* make a copy */
>  	propval = kmalloc(rprop->length, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!propval) {
>  		pr_err("%s: Could not copy value of '%s'\n",ld

This kmalloc/memcpy could use kmemdup instead.

It doesn't really need the pr_err either as kmalloc and/or
kmemdup get a generic OOM message.