This reduces chance of error if the type of "dev" changes. While here remove extra error print out, this is not usually done for memory allocation failures. Signed-off-by: Andrew Davis <afd@xxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.c index abea1d86035c..4a8e7728ee29 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.c @@ -770,12 +770,9 @@ static int davinci_i2c_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, irq, "can't get irq resource\n"); } - dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct davinci_i2c_dev), - GFP_KERNEL); - if (!dev) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Memory allocation failed\n"); + dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!dev) return -ENOMEM; - } init_completion(&dev->cmd_complete); -- 2.39.2