the attached patch basically does this for the pci drivers in alsa-kernel

   static int __init alsa_card_mychip_init(void)
   {
-          int err;
-
-          if ((err = pci_module_init(&driver)) < 0) {
-  #ifdef MODULE
-                  printk(KERN_ERR "My chip soundcard not found "
-                                  "or device busy\n");
-  #endif
-                  return err;
-          }
-          return 0;
+          return pci_module_init(&driver);
   }

the added message does not really give any additional information. The 
patch also improves the consistency with the majority of the drivers in 
the kernel that just use return pci_module_init(&driver); with out 
giving any message.

-Jeff