* Joel Fernandes <[email protected]> [140507 14:53]:
> On 05/07/2014 10:24 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Joel Fernandes <[email protected]> [140424 14:44]:
> >> The subsequent devm_ioremap_resource will catch it and print an error, let 
> >> it
> >> be checked there.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/plat-omap/dmtimer.c |    4 ----
> >>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-omap/dmtimer.c b/arch/arm/plat-omap/dmtimer.c
> >> index 7e806f9..1fd30fa 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/dmtimer.c
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/plat-omap/dmtimer.c
> >> @@ -810,10 +810,6 @@ static int omap_dm_timer_probe(struct platform_device 
> >> *pdev)
> >>    }
> >>  
> >>    mem = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> >> -  if (unlikely(!mem)) {
> >> -          dev_err(dev, "%s: no memory resource.\n", __func__);
> >> -          return -ENODEV;
> >> -  }
> >>  
> >>    timer = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct omap_dm_timer), GFP_KERNEL);
> >>    if (!timer) {
> > 
> > We still need to return an error here and not try to continue though.
> 
> We are returning an error if mem is NULL so the redundant check is
> unnecessary:
> 
> ...
>         timer->io_base = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, mem);
>         if (IS_ERR(timer->io_base))
>                 return PTR_ERR(timer->io_base);

Why would you want to even continue omap_dm_timer_probe()
further and allocate memory if platform_get_resource() fails?

Tony
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