linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/7] [media] Hexium Gemini: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in hexium

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Message-ID: <1c4c1193-be5a-1fc8-718e-373a45b66e2a@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Sun, 3 Sep 2017 22:33:02 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] [media] Hexium Gemini: Delete an error message for a
 failed memory allocation in hexium_attach()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 19:23:37 +0200

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

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c b/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c
index c889ec9f8a5a..694b70fa3baf 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c
@@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ static int hexium_attach(struct saa7146_dev *dev, struct saa7146_pci_extension_d
-	if (NULL == hexium) {
-		pr_err("not enough kernel memory in hexium_attach()\n");
+	if (!hexium)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+
 	dev->ext_priv = hexium;
 
 	/* enable i2c-port pins */
-- 
2.14.1