Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-smo8800: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2017 13:53:54 Dhaval Shah wrote:
>> Removed Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message checkpatch warnings.
>> Issue found by checkpatch.

>> -             dev_err(&device->dev, "failed to allocate device data\n");
>
> Hi! Any particular reason for removing error message?

If you look into drivers/base/dd.c (real_probe() function IIRC) it
issues a warning when probe fails with error code.
So, basically all error messages in ->probe() are redundant (except
maybe those that prints more than error message itself).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko