linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] axonram: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in axon_ram

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Message-ID: <31790d2a-26b4-54f5-e52d-5637be0b676f@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Thu, 3 Aug 2017 21:12:50 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] axonram: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in axon_ram_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:49:18 +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>
---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
index 2799706106c6..b82d1b023a15 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
@@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ static int axon_ram_probe(struct platform_device *device)
 
 	bank = kzalloc(sizeof(struct axon_ram_bank), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (bank == NULL) {
-		dev_err(&device->dev, "Out of memory\n");
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto failed;
 	}
-- 
2.13.4