[PATCH] dell_rbu: fix error check

platform_device_register_simple() returns error code as pointer when it
fails.  The return value should be checked by IS_ERR().

Cc: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c b/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c
index 08b16179844308ab80b4406638ff43927156cf3d..fc702e40bd431c2cfdd715beacd636fb3d886c49 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c
@@ -705,17 +705,16 @@ static struct bin_attribute rbu_packet_size_attr = {
 
 static int __init dcdrbu_init(void)
 {
-       int rc = 0;
+       int rc;
        spin_lock_init(&rbu_data.lock);
 
        init_packet_head();
-       rbu_device =
-               platform_device_register_simple("dell_rbu", -1, NULL, 0);
-       if (!rbu_device) {
+       rbu_device = platform_device_register_simple("dell_rbu", -1, NULL, 0);
+       if (IS_ERR(rbu_device)) {
                printk(KERN_ERR
                        "dell_rbu:%s:platform_device_register_simple "
                        "failed\n", __FUNCTION__);
-               return -EIO;
+               return PTR_ERR(rbu_device);
        }
 
        rc = sysfs_create_bin_file(&rbu_device->dev.kobj, &rbu_data_attr);