The kernel is already quite noisy if a memory allocation fails. So it's the usual policy to not add another message on the driver level. Drop the error message accordingly. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Unchanged since (implicit) v1 drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c b/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c index c97e25448772..891b6bf0b4ca 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c +++ b/drivers/iio/humidity/dht11.c @@ -295,10 +295,8 @@ static int dht11_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct iio_dev *iio; iio = devm_iio_device_alloc(dev, sizeof(*dht11)); - if (!iio) { - dev_err(dev, "Failed to allocate IIO device\n"); + if (!iio) return -ENOMEM; - } dht11 = iio_priv(iio); dht11->dev = dev; base-commit: f2906aa863381afb0015a9eb7fefad885d4e5a56 -- 2.36.1