linux-kernel - [PATCH] ASoC: DaVinci: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in two functions

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Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:08:03 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ASoC: DaVinci: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in two functions

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:51:46 +0200

Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in these functions.

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>
---
 sound/soc/davinci/davinci-mcasp.c | 2 --
 sound/soc/davinci/davinci-vcif.c  | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/davinci/davinci-mcasp.c b/sound/soc/davinci/davinci-mcasp.c
index 56ec1d301ac2..d486908d4e0e 100644
--- a/sound/soc/davinci/davinci-mcasp.c
+++ b/sound/soc/davinci/davinci-mcasp.c
@@ -1604,6 +1604,4 @@ static struct davinci_mcasp_pdata *davinci_mcasp_set_pdata_from_of(
 		if (!pdata) {
-			dev_err(&pdev->dev,
-				"Failed to allocate memory for pdata\n");
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			return pdata;
 		}
diff --git a/sound/soc/davinci/davinci-vcif.c b/sound/soc/davinci/davinci-vcif.c
index c77d9218795a..5415b72393fa 100644
--- a/sound/soc/davinci/davinci-vcif.c
+++ b/sound/soc/davinci/davinci-vcif.c
@@ -213,8 +213,5 @@ static int davinci_vcif_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
-	if (!davinci_vcif_dev) {
-		dev_dbg(&pdev->dev,
-			"could not allocate memory for private data\n");
+	if (!davinci_vcif_dev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	/* DMA tx params */
 	davinci_vcif_dev->davinci_vc = davinci_vc;
-- 
2.14.0