From: Jean Delvare Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:33:36 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] Fix error handling in backlight drivers X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc6~43 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=10ad1b7363090c0eec2b4054a5a3b82d2cc09ee5;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] Fix error handling in backlight drivers ERR_PTR() is supposed to be passed a negative value. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c index bd39bbd88d..151fda8dde 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ struct backlight_device *backlight_device_register(const char *name, void *devda new_bd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct backlight_device), GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(!new_bd)) - return ERR_PTR(ENOMEM); + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); init_MUTEX(&new_bd->sem); new_bd->props = bp; diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c b/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c index 9e32485ee7..86908a60c6 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ struct lcd_device *lcd_device_register(const char *name, void *devdata, new_ld = kmalloc(sizeof(struct lcd_device), GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(!new_ld)) - return ERR_PTR(ENOMEM); + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); init_MUTEX(&new_ld->sem); new_ld->props = lp;