From: Thomas Sujith Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:05:23 +0000 (-0500) Subject: intel_menlo: extract return values using PTR_ERR X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69f6b8dd6b94ac594b6920b4530a3390fb1d3fd6;p=GitHub%2Fmt8127%2Fandroid_kernel_alcatel_ttab.git intel_menlo: 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 Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- diff --git a/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c b/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c index f70984ab1e1b..de16e88eb8d3 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c +++ b/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c @@ -170,10 +170,13 @@ static int intel_menlow_memory_add(struct acpi_device *device) cdev = thermal_cooling_device_register("Memory controller", device, &memory_cooling_ops); - acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev; - if (!cdev) - result = -ENODEV; - else { + if (IS_ERR(cdev)) { + result = PTR_ERR(cdev); + goto end; + } + + if (cdev) { + acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev; result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, &cdev->device.kobj, "thermal_cooling"); if (result)