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Message-ID: <20080911130442.6ebd10c6@hyperion.delvare>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:04:42 +0200
From: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>
Cc: i2c@...sensors.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c-dev: Return correct error code on class_create()
failure
Hi Sven,
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:30:27 +0200 (CEST), Sven Wegener wrote:
> We need to convert the error pointer from class_create(), else we'll return the
> successful return code from register_chrdev() on failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>
> ---
> drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
> index af4491f..307d976 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
> @@ -583,8 +583,10 @@ static int __init i2c_dev_init(void)
> goto out;
>
> i2c_dev_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "i2c-dev");
> - if (IS_ERR(i2c_dev_class))
> + if (IS_ERR(i2c_dev_class)) {
> + res = PTR_ERR(i2c_dev_class);
> goto out_unreg_chrdev;
> + }
>
> res = i2c_add_driver(&i2cdev_driver);
> if (res)
Good catch. Patch applied, thanks.
--
Jean Delvare
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