linux-kernel - [PATCH] c2port: fix device_create() return value check

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Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:20:52 +0200
From:	Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@...ia.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	giometti@...ux.it, vegard.nossum@...il.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ext-jani.1.nikula@...ia.com
Subject: [PATCH] c2port: fix device_create() return value check

From: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@...ia.com>

Use IS_ERR() instead of comparing to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@...ia.com>

---

NOTE: I'm afraid I'm unable to test this; please consider this more a
bug report than a complete patch.
---
 drivers/misc/c2port/core.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/c2port/core.c b/drivers/misc/c2port/core.c
index b5346b4..3276216 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/c2port/core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/c2port/core.c
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ struct c2port_device *c2port_device_register(char *name,
 
 	c2dev->dev = device_create(c2port_class, NULL, 0, c2dev,
 					"c2port%d", id);
-	if (unlikely(!c2dev->dev)) {
+	if (unlikely(IS_ERR(c2dev->dev))) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto error_device_create;
 	}
-- 
1.6.5.2

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