[PATCH] mtd/nand/atmel: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in two functions

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Mon Jan 8 00:18:31 PST 2018


[private message]
Hi Wenyou,

On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 08:58:21 +0800
"Yang, Wenyou" <Wenyou.Yang at Microchip.com> wrote:

> On 2018/1/6 4:55, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 21:45:04 +0100
> >
> > Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in these functions.
> >
> > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
> > ---  
> 
> Acked-by: Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang at microchip.com>

Please don't encourage Markus to send more patches. The MTD maintainers
(like other maintainers) have decided to ignore his contributions.

If you want to know why, just google his name and you should have a
pretty good idea.

Thanks,

Boris

> >   drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c | 8 ++------
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c
> > index 90a71a56bc23..a41b999229c9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/nand-controller.c
> > @@ -1612,10 +1612,8 @@ static int atmel_nand_register(struct atmel_nand *nand)
> >   		mtd->name = devm_kasprintf(nc->dev, GFP_KERNEL,
> >   					   "%s:nand.%d", dev_name(nc->dev),
> >   					   nand->cs[0].id);
> > -		if (!mtd->name) {
> > -			dev_err(nc->dev, "Failed to allocate mtd->name\n");
> > +		if (!mtd->name)
> >   			return -ENOMEM;
> > -		}
> >   	}
> >   
> >   	ret = nand_scan_tail(mtd);
> > @@ -1654,10 +1652,8 @@ static struct atmel_nand *atmel_nand_create(struct atmel_nand_controller *nc,
> >   	nand = devm_kzalloc(nc->dev,
> >   			    sizeof(*nand) + (numcs * sizeof(*nand->cs)),
> >   			    GFP_KERNEL);
> > -	if (!nand) {
> > -		dev_err(nc->dev, "Failed to allocate NAND object\n");
> > +	if (!nand)
> >   		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> > -	}
> >   
> >   	nand->numcs = numcs;
> >     
> 
> Best Regards,
> Wenyou Yang




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