Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756015Ab3JXS02 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:26:28 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:56610 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754844Ab3JXS01 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:26:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:26:11 +0200 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= To: Joe Perches Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kukjin Kim , Ferruh Yigit , Wan ZongShun , Andrey Moiseev , Dmitry Torokhov , Josh Wu , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, Henrik Rydberg , Ben Dooks , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Pau Oliva Fora , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] input: Remove OOM message after input_allocate_device Message-ID: <20131024182611.GA3512@pengutronix.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:21e:67ff:fe11:9c5c X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1341 Lines: 33 Hello Joe, On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:14:50PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > Emitting an OOM message isn't necessary after input_allocate_device > as there's a generic OOM and a dump_stack already done. > > [...] > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches > diff --git a/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c b/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c > index 005d852..3b9c709 100644 > --- a/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c > +++ b/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c > @@ -254,8 +254,6 @@ static int as5011_probe(struct i2c_client *client, > as5011 = kmalloc(sizeof(struct as5011_device), GFP_KERNEL); > input_dev = input_allocate_device(); > if (!as5011 || !input_dev) { > - dev_err(&client->dev, > - "Can't allocate memory for device structure\n"); Don't know if that can happen, but if as5011 is NULL but input_dev isn't the message would still be sensible, wouldn't it? There are several more that suffer the same "problem". Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K?nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/