linux-kernel - [PATCH] backlight, appledisplay: fix incomplete registration failure handling

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Message-ID: <20100226130204.5727ba6b@neptune.home>
Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:02:04 +0100
From:	Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org>
To:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ux.intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] backlight, appledisplay: fix incomplete registration
 failure handling

On error while registering backlight, return it to caller instead of
returning 0.
Mark struct backlight_ops as const.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org>
---
 drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c b/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c
index 1eb9e41..ef79ca2 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static int appledisplay_bl_get_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd)
 		return pdata->msgdata[1];
 }
 
-static struct backlight_ops appledisplay_bl_data = {
+static const struct backlight_ops appledisplay_bl_data = {
 	.get_brightness	= appledisplay_bl_get_brightness,
 	.update_status	= appledisplay_bl_update_status,
 };
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ static int appledisplay_probe(struct usb_interface *iface,
 						&appledisplay_bl_data);
 	if (IS_ERR(pdata->bd)) {
 		dev_err(&iface->dev, "Backlight registration failed\n");
+		retval = PTR_ERR(pdata->bd);
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-- 
1.6.4.4

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