linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 13/17] IB/mlx4: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in mlx4_ib

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Message-ID: <c63df5f0-3344-1eeb-6513-bb064569ce41@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2017 20:46:48 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        Majd Dibbiny <majd@...lanox.com>,
        Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: [PATCH v2 13/17] IB/mlx4: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in mlx4_ib_add()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:55:35 +0200

Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.

Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
index 4eb2466530dc..67368dea9b6a 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
@@ -2626,11 +2626,8 @@ static void *mlx4_ib_add(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
 		return NULL;
 
 	ibdev = (struct mlx4_ib_dev *) ib_alloc_device(sizeof(*ibdev));
-	if (!ibdev) {
-		dev_err(&dev->persist->pdev->dev,
-			"Device struct alloc failed\n");
+	if (!ibdev)
 		return NULL;
-	}
 
 	iboe = &ibdev->iboe;
 
-- 
2.12.2