Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powerpc/BSR: cleanup the error path of bsr_init | Date | Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:52:17 +0000 |
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On Sunday 15 July 2012, Devendra Naga wrote: > class_create if succeeded returns a pointer to the struct class, > and if it fails, it returns a value enclosed by the pointer, which > can be read by using PTR_ERR. > > Handle the error and return it. > > result is for error checking of the alloc_chrdev_region, instead > ret can be used, and also if the alloc_chrdev_region fail, > we are still returning -ENODEV, use ret and the error path will > take care of returning of the ret. > > Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <develkernel412222@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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