[PATCH] i2c-dev: Return correct error code on class_create()failure

From: Sven Wegener
Date: Wed Sep 10 2008 - 15:30:53 EST


We need to convert the error pointer from class_create(), else we'll return the
successful return code from register_chrdev() on failure.

Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
index af4491f..307d976 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
@@ -583,8 +583,10 @@ static int __init i2c_dev_init(void)
goto out;

i2c_dev_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "i2c-dev");
- if (IS_ERR(i2c_dev_class))
+ if (IS_ERR(i2c_dev_class)) {
+ res = PTR_ERR(i2c_dev_class);
goto out_unreg_chrdev;
+ }

res = i2c_add_driver(&i2cdev_driver);
if (res)
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