linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] ieee802154: ca8210: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ca8210

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Message-ID: <374015a3-15c9-f799-f26b-3aca91c77c55@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 08:13:37 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linuxdev@...coda.com, linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Alexander Aring <aar@...gutronix.de>,
        Harry Morris <h.morris@...coda.com>,
        Stefan Schmidt <stefan@....samsung.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ieee802154: ca8210: Delete an error message for a failed
 memory allocation in ca8210_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 07:32:46 +0200

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

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

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/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
index 25fd3b04b3c0..25ed11bb5ed3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
@@ -3143,10 +3143,6 @@ static int ca8210_probe(struct spi_device *spi_device)
 
 	pdata = kmalloc(sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pdata) {
-		dev_crit(
-			&spi_device->dev,
-			"Could not allocate platform data\n"
-		);
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto error;
 	}
-- 
2.13.0