Re: [PATCH] tlclk: fix platform_device_register_simple() error check

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Tue Nov 28 2006 - 01:19:32 EST


On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 12:34:52PM -0800, Mark Gross wrote:
> >
> > tlclk_device = platform_device_register_simple("telco_clock",
> > -1, NULL, 0);
> > - if (!tlclk_device) {
> > + if (IS_ERR(tlclk_device)) {
> ok
>
> > printk(KERN_ERR "tlclk: platform_device_register failed.\n");
> > - ret = -EBUSY;
> > + ret = PTR_ERR(tlclk_device);
>
> I don't know about this but I could be wrong. Please convince me.

We expect platform_device_register_simple() returns proper errno as pointer
when it fails.

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