linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] rtc/rtc-88pm80x: assign ret only when rtc_register

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:10:36 +0530
From:	Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] rtc/rtc-88pm80x: assign ret only when rtc_register_driver fails

At the probe we are assigning ret to return value of PTR_ERR right
after the rtc_register_driver, as we would have done it in the
if (IS_ERR(ptr)) check, since the function fails and goes inside
that case

Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@...il.com>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm80x.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm80x.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm80x.c
index a2f956d..7e050b4 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm80x.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm80x.c
@@ -314,8 +314,8 @@ static int __devinit pm80x_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	info->rtc_dev = rtc_device_register("88pm80x-rtc", &pdev->dev,
 					    &pm80x_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
-	ret = PTR_ERR(info->rtc_dev);
 	if (IS_ERR(info->rtc_dev)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(info->rtc_dev);
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to register RTC device: %d\n", ret);
 		goto out_rtc;
 	}
-- 
1.7.0.4

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