From: Akinobu Mita Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:19:25 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] dell_rbu: fix error check X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6897083abfb0156b533ab8ac42c47f68c550ca9e;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git [PATCH] dell_rbu: fix error check platform_device_register_simple() returns error code as pointer when it fails. The return value should be checked by IS_ERR(). Cc: Abhay Salunke Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Matt Domsch Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c b/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c index 08b161798443..fc702e40bd43 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c @@ -705,17 +705,16 @@ static struct bin_attribute rbu_packet_size_attr = { static int __init dcdrbu_init(void) { - int rc = 0; + int rc; spin_lock_init(&rbu_data.lock); init_packet_head(); - rbu_device = - platform_device_register_simple("dell_rbu", -1, NULL, 0); - if (!rbu_device) { + rbu_device = platform_device_register_simple("dell_rbu", -1, NULL, 0); + if (IS_ERR(rbu_device)) { printk(KERN_ERR "dell_rbu:%s:platform_device_register_simple " "failed\n", __FUNCTION__); - return -EIO; + return PTR_ERR(rbu_device); } rc = sysfs_create_bin_file(&rbu_device->dev.kobj, &rbu_data_attr);