This error message doesn't really add any information. If modprobe fails then the user will already know what the error code is. In the case of kmalloc() it's a style violation to print an error message for that because kmalloc has it's own better error messages built in. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hid-steam.c | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-steam.c b/drivers/hid/hid-steam.c index b3c4e50e248a..59df6ead7b54 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-steam.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-steam.c @@ -1109,10 +1109,9 @@ static int steam_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, return hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT); steam = devm_kzalloc(&hdev->dev, sizeof(*steam), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!steam) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto steam_alloc_fail; - } + if (!steam) + return -ENOMEM; + steam->hdev = hdev; hid_set_drvdata(hdev, steam); spin_lock_init(&steam->lock); @@ -1179,9 +1178,6 @@ static int steam_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, cancel_work_sync(&steam->work_connect); cancel_delayed_work_sync(&steam->mode_switch); cancel_work_sync(&steam->rumble_work); -steam_alloc_fail: - hid_err(hdev, "%s: failed with error %d\n", - __func__, ret); return ret; } -- 2.43.0