[PATCH 4/8] input: Remove OOM message after input_allocate_device

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Oct 24 14:26:11 EDT 2013


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 <joe at perches.com>
> 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

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