PNP: Remove pnp_alloc()

The kernel will complain anyway if it runs out of memory, so it is
not necessary to print an extra error message when that happens and
kzalloc() can be called directly instead of pnp_alloc() which then
becomes redundant and can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/pnp/core.c b/drivers/pnp/core.c
index a50ab002e9e4..ccdfbf3978c0 100644
--- a/drivers/pnp/core.c
+++ b/drivers/pnp/core.c
@@ -31,18 +31,6 @@ DEFINE_MUTEX(pnp_lock);
 int pnp_platform_devices;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pnp_platform_devices);
 
-void *pnp_alloc(long size)
-{
-	void *result;
-
-	result = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!result) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "pnp: Out of Memory\n");
-		return NULL;
-	}
-	return result;
-}
-
 static void pnp_remove_protocol(struct pnp_protocol *protocol)
 {
 	mutex_lock(&pnp_lock);