Failure of kzalloc should cause the enclosing function
to return -ENOMEM, not -ENODEV.
Additionally, removed the following checkpatch warnings:
ERROR: spaces required around that '==' (ctx:VxV)
ERROR: space required before the open parenthesis '('
CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written "!lp"
Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1...@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
-Modified commit message to properly describe the change.
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c
index 256f590..3a7ebfd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c
@@ -547,8 +547,8 @@ static int __init lance_probe1(struct net_device *dev, int
ioaddr, int irq, int
/* Make certain the data structures used by the LANCE are aligned and
DMAble. */
lp = kzalloc(sizeof(*lp), GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL);
- if(lp==NULL)
- return -ENODEV;
+ if (!lp)
+ return -ENOMEM;
if (lance_debug > 6) printk(" (#0x%05lx)", (unsigned long)lp);
dev->ml_priv = lp;
lp->name = chipname;
--
1.9.1
