Re: [PATCH] watchdog: trivial fix of spelling mistake on "allocate"

From: Colin Ian King
Date: Tue Apr 26 2016 - 13:19:17 EST


On 26/04/16 17:50, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 20:19 +0100, Colin King wrote:
>>> fix spelling mistake, alloacate -> allocate
>> []
>>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/jz4740_wdt.c
>> []
>>> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static int jz4740_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>> drvdata = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct jz4740_wdt_drvdata),
>>> GFP_KERNEL);
>>> if (!drvdata) {
>>> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Unable to alloacate watchdog device\n");
>>> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Unable to allocate watchdog device\n");
>>
>> Might as well delete this line instead.
>>
> Excellent point.
>
> Colin, please resend and just drop the error message. It is not needed
> because an error message is already printed by devm_kzalloc().

Will do.

>
> Thanks,
> Guenter
>