Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Alchemy: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in alchemy_pci_probe()

[SF Markus Elfring]

>> +++ b/arch/mips/pci/pci-alchemy.c
>> @@ -377,7 +377,6 @@ static int alchemy_pci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>
>>         ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
>>         if (!ctx) {
>> -               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no memory for pcictl context\n");
>>                 ret = -ENOMEM;
>>                 goto out;
>>         }
>> --
>> 2.13.0
> 
> Why are you removing just this one dev_err()?

How do you think about to achieve a small code reduction also for this software module?


> What issue are you trying to address?

Do you find information from a Linux allocation failure report sufficient
for such a function implementation?

Regards,
Markus