backlight: backlight_device_register() return ERR_PTR()

PATCH New Dan Carpenter 1 participant 1 message Mar 20, 2010

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2010-03-20 11:18 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 backlight: backlight_device_register() return ERR_PTR()

backlight_device_register() returns a valid pointer or ERR_PTR() never NULL.

Signed-off-by Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

drivers/video/backlight/adx_bl.c +2 -2

index b0624b9..c02b851 100644
@@ -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;
 	}