Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Alchemy: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in alchemy_pci_probe()

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On 05/24/17 11:15, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>>> +++ b/arch/mips/pci/pci-alchemy.c
>>> @@ -377,7 +377,6 @@ static int alchemy_pci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>
>>>         ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>         if (!ctx) {
>>> -               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no memory for pcictl context\n");
>>>                 ret = -ENOMEM;
>>>                 goto out;
>>>         }
>>> --
>>> 2.13.0
>>
>> Why are you removing just this one dev_err()?

Agreed.  Why just this one error message when there are many in this function?

> How do you think about to achieve a small code reduction also for this software module?
> 
> 
>> What issue are you trying to address?
> 
> Do you find information from a Linux allocation failure report sufficient
> for such a function implementation?

Can you answer questions with statements instead of with questions?

thanks.
-- 
~Randy




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