linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] backlight: lm3509_bl: Fix NULL vs IS

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Message-ID: <20240613162445.GA24098@aspen.lan>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:24:45 +0100
From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc: Patrick Gansterer <paroga@...oga.com>, Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>,
	Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>, Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: lm3509_bl: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() check in
 register() function

On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 04:10:23PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The devm_backlight_device_register() doesn't return NULL, it returns
> error pointers.  Update the error checking to match.
>
> Fixes: b72755f5b577 ("backlight: Add new lm3509 backlight driver")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>


Daniel.