[PATCH] staging: media: imx: remove unnecessary out-of-memory error message

Shyam Sunder Reddy Padira shyamsunderreddypadira at gmail.com
Sun May 3 08:00:26 PDT 2026


Remove dev_err() call after dma_alloc_coherent() failure.

checkpatch.pl reports this as an unnecessary out-of-memory
message because failure is already conveyed by returning
-ENOMEM, and the current message does not provide additional
useful debugging information.

Signed-off-by: Shyam Sunder Reddy Padira <shyamsunderreddypadira at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c
index 1b5af8945e6b..85b63993ef28 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c
@@ -589,10 +589,8 @@ int imx_media_alloc_dma_buf(struct device *dev,
 	buf->len = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
 	buf->virt = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, buf->len, &buf->phys,
 				       GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!buf->virt) {
-		dev_err(dev, "%s: failed\n", __func__);
+	if (!buf->virt)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.43.0




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