netdev - [PATCH] ATM-ENI: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in eni

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Message-ID: <da947bfe-8bef-18c4-609c-e859412dd2f3@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Sun, 6 Aug 2017 11:20:11 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Chas Williams <3chas3@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ATM-ENI: Delete an error message for a failed memory
 allocation in eni_start()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 11:15:17 +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/atm/eni.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/atm/eni.c b/drivers/atm/eni.c
index ce47eb17901d..d4b11ef940ee 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/eni.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/eni.c
@@ -1849,8 +1849,6 @@ static int eni_start(struct atm_dev *dev)
 					   sizeof(*eni_dev->free_list),
 					   GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!eni_dev->free_list) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR DEV_LABEL "(itf %d): couldn't get free page\n",
-		    dev->number);
 		error = -ENOMEM;
 		goto free_irq;
 	}
-- 
2.13.4