Commit 1a8ceafc authored Jun 27, 2005 by Dominik Brodowski Committed by Linus Torvalds Jun 27, 2005

[PATCH] pcmcia: properly handle all errors of register_chrdev



register_chrdev() can return errors (negative) other then -EBUSY, so check
for any negative error code.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent a9a55243

drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c

+2 −2

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		@@ -760,9 +760,9 @@ void __init pcmcia_setup_ioctl(void) {

		/* Set up character device for user mode clients */
		i = register_chrdev(0, "pcmcia", &ds_fops);
		if (i == -EBUSY)
		if (i < 0)
		printk(KERN_NOTICE "unable to find a free device # for "
		"Driver Services\n");
		"Driver Services (error=%d)\n", i);
		else
		major_dev = i;