* [patch] backlight: backlight_device_register() return ERR_PTR()
@ 2010-03-20 11:18 Dan Carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2010-03-20 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Purdie
Cc: Bruno Prémont, Matthew Garrett, Thierry Reding, Emese Revfy,
linux-kernel, kernel-janitors
backlight_device_register() returns a valid pointer or ERR_PTR()
never NULL.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/adx_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/adx_bl.c
index b0624b9..c02b851 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/adx_bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/adx_bl.c
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ static int __devinit adx_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
props.max_brightness = 0xff;
bldev = backlight_device_register(dev_name(&pdev->dev), &pdev->dev,
bl, &adx_backlight_ops, &props);
- if (!bldev) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
+ if (IS_ERR(bldev)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(bldev);
goto out;
}
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