[09/18] HID: Return an error code only as a constant in hid_allocate_device()

Commit Message

SF Markus Elfring Feb. 7, 2017, 7:51 p.m. UTC

From: Markus Elfring <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 19:17:36 +0100

* Return an error code without storing it in an intermediate variable.

* Delete the local variable "ret" which became unnecessary with
  this refactoring.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <[e-mail]>
---
 drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index f4ea3590954c..a5db000ed1c4 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -2716,11 +2716,10 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hid_add_device);
 struct hid_device *hid_allocate_device(void)
 {
 	struct hid_device *hdev;
-	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 
 	hdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*hdev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hdev)
-		return ERR_PTR(ret);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	device_initialize(&hdev->dev);
 	hdev->dev.release = hid_device_release;