Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] of: Remove comments that state the obvious

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Oct 25 2016 - 17:29:58 EST


On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 13:58 -0700, frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Remove comments that state the obvious, to reduce clutter

Some of these removals might be overly aggressive.

> diff --git a/drivers/of/resolver.c b/drivers/of/resolver.c
[]
> @@ -125,7 +114,6 @@ static int __of_adjust_phandle_ref(struct device_node *node,
> int offset, propcurlen;
> int err = 0;
>
> - /* make a copy */
> propval = kmalloc(rprop->length, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!propval) {
> pr_err("%s: Could not copy value of '%s'\n",ld

This kmalloc/memcpy could use kmemdup instead.

It doesn't really need the pr_err either as kmalloc and/or
kmemdup get a generic OOM message.