linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpio: mockup: fix a return value check

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Date:   Fri, 8 Dec 2017 15:34:42 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: mockup: fix a return value check

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:

> The return value of platform_device_register_resndata() on error is
> an error code converted to pointer with ERR_PTR(), not NULL.
>
> Check the return value correctly.
>
> Fixes: 8a39f597bcfd ("gpio: mockup: rework device probing")
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij