On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 20:26 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello Joe, > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:14:50PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > Emitting an OOM message isn't necessary after input_allocate_device > > as there's a generic OOM and a dump_stack already done. > > > > [...] > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c b/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c > > index 005d852..3b9c709 100644 > > --- a/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c > > +++ b/drivers/input/joystick/as5011.c > > @@ -254,8 +254,6 @@ static int as5011_probe(struct i2c_client *client, > > as5011 = kmalloc(sizeof(struct as5011_device), GFP_KERNEL); > > input_dev = input_allocate_device(); > > if (!as5011 || !input_dev) { > > - dev_err(&client->dev, > > - "Can't allocate memory for device structure\n"); > Don't know if that can happen, but if as5011 is NULL but input_dev isn't > the message would still be sensible, wouldn't it? There are several more > that suffer the same "problem". Any k.alloc without __GFP_NOWARN does a generic OOM message and a dump_stack() so there could already be 2 messages anyway. cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html