Re: [PATCH] watchdog: remove error message when unable to allocate watchdog device

[Guenter Roeck]

On 04/26/2016 10:18 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The dev_err message is superfluous because the failure is already
> printed by dev_kzalloc, so remove it.
Nitpick: devm_kzalloc

> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
>   drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c | 4 +---
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c
> index 6a7d5c3..c8d51dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c
> @@ -160,10 +160,8 @@ 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");
> +	if (!drvdata)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
> -	}
>
>   	if (heartbeat < 1 || heartbeat > MAX_HEARTBEAT)
>   		heartbeat = DEFAULT_HEARTBEAT;