From 1a8ceafce5f1e68c28c7ba52fd7e72ab0008eb46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dominik Brodowski Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:29:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] pcmcia: properly handle all errors of register_chrdev register_chrdev() can return errors (negative) other then -EBUSY, so check for any negative error code. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c index 3084d8a3ba41..b883bc151ed0 100644 --- a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c @@ -760,9 +760,9 @@ void __init pcmcia_setup_ioctl(void) { /* Set up character device for user mode clients */ i = register_chrdev(0, "pcmcia", &ds_fops); - if (i == -EBUSY) + if (i < 0) printk(KERN_NOTICE "unable to find a free device # for " - "Driver Services\n"); + "Driver Services (error=%d)\n", i); else major_dev = i; -- 2.20.1