[PATCH] tty: serial: Remove the use of dev_err_probe()

From: Xichao Zhao
Date: Tue Aug 19 2025 - 05:30:18 EST


The dev_err_probe() doesn't do anything when error is '-ENOMEM'. Therefore,
remove the useless call to dev_err_probe(), and just return the value instead.

Signed-off-by: Xichao Zhao <zhao.xichao@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/max3100.c | 2 +-
drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c | 3 +--
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/max3100.c b/drivers/tty/serial/max3100.c
index 67d80f8f801e..552b808a1bb2 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/max3100.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/max3100.c
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ static int max3100_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
break;
if (i == MAX_MAX3100) {
mutex_unlock(&max3100s_lock);
- return dev_err_probe(dev, -ENOMEM, "too many MAX3100 chips\n");
+ return -ENOMEM;
}

max3100s[i] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct max3100_port), GFP_KERNEL);
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c b/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
index 541c790c0109..79bec9509154 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
@@ -1269,8 +1269,7 @@ static int max310x_probe(struct device *dev, const struct max310x_devtype *devty
/* Alloc port structure */
s = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(s, p, devtype->nr), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!s)
- return dev_err_probe(dev, -ENOMEM,
- "Error allocating port structure\n");
+ return -ENOMEM;

/* Always ask for fixed clock rate from a property. */
device_property_read_u32(dev, "clock-frequency", &uartclk);
--
2.34.1