Re: [PATCH] watchdog: trivial fix of spelling mistake on "allocate"

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Apr 26 2016 - 12:50:11 EST


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 20:19 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> > fix spelling mistake, alloacate -> allocate
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c
> []
> > @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static int jz4740_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >   drvdata = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct jz4740_wdt_drvdata),
> >          GFP_KERNEL);
> >   if (!drvdata) {
> > - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Unable to alloacate watchdog device\n");
> > + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Unable to allocate watchdog device\n");
>
> Might as well delete this line instead.
>
Excellent point.

Colin, please resend and just drop the error message. It is not needed
because an error message is already printed by devm_kzalloc().

Thanks,
Guenter