linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] [media] v4l2-async: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in v4l2_async_notifier

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Date:   Tue, 27 Dec 2016 13:47:18 +0200
From:   Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] [media] v4l2-async: Delete an error message for a
 failed memory allocation in v4l2_async_notifier_unregister()

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 09:45:50PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 19:19:49 +0100
> 
> The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following.
> 
> WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
> 
> Thus fix the affected source code place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>  drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c
> index 277183f2d514..812d0b2a2f73 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c
> @@ -203,11 +203,6 @@ void v4l2_async_notifier_unregister(struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier)
>  		return;
>  
>  	dev = kmalloc_array(n_subdev, sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!dev) {
> -		dev_err(notifier->v4l2_dev->dev,
> -			"Failed to allocate device cache!\n");
> -	}
> -

I'd leave the empty line where it is.

Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>

>  	mutex_lock(&list_lock);
>  
>  	list_del(&notifier->list);
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 
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