ACPI thermal: extract return values using PTR_ERR

Need to extract errors using PTR_ERR macro and
process accordingly.thermal_cooling_device_register
returning NULL means that CONFIG_THERMAL=n and in that
case no need to create symbolic links.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
index 75ccf5d18bf4e3630e892dd0021a8c890a0fc0c2..b02006951cd0f21ecb7700eb15d59b67531a2c24 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
@@ -670,21 +670,26 @@ static int __cpuinit acpi_processor_start(struct acpi_device *device)
 
        pr->cdev = thermal_cooling_device_register("Processor", device,
                                                &processor_cooling_ops);
-       if (pr->cdev)
+       if (IS_ERR(pr->cdev)) {
+               result = PTR_ERR(pr->cdev);
+               goto end;
+       }
+       if (pr->cdev) {
                printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
                        "%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
                        device->dev.bus_id, pr->cdev->id);
-       else
-               goto end;
 
-       result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, &pr->cdev->device.kobj,
-                                       "thermal_cooling");
-       if (result)
-               return result;
-       result = sysfs_create_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj, &device->dev.kobj,
-                                       "device");
-       if (result)
-               return result;
+               result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
+                                          &pr->cdev->device.kobj,
+                                          "thermal_cooling");
+               if (result)
+                       return result;
+               result = sysfs_create_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj,
+                                          &device->dev.kobj,
+                                          "device");
+               if (result)
+                       return result;
+       }
 
        if (pr->flags.throttling) {
                printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "%s [%s] (supports",
@@ -809,10 +814,12 @@ static int acpi_processor_remove(struct acpi_device *device, int type)
 
        acpi_processor_remove_fs(device);
 
-       sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
-       sysfs_remove_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj, "device");
-       thermal_cooling_device_unregister(pr->cdev);
-       pr->cdev = NULL;
+       if (pr->cdev) {
+               sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling");
+               sysfs_remove_link(&pr->cdev->device.kobj, "device");
+               thermal_cooling_device_unregister(pr->cdev);
+               pr->cdev = NULL;
+       }
 
        processors[pr->id] = NULL;