[PATCH] arm: ecard: Fix compilation warning.
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Dec 6 09:05:06 EST 2010
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:04:03PM +0100, Marek Belisko wrote:
> Fix following compilation warning:
> arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c:1066: warning: ignoring return value of
> 'device_register', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko at open-nandra.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c
> index eed2f79..da882b1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c
> @@ -1063,8 +1063,10 @@ ecard_probe(int slot, card_type_t type)
> *ecp = ec;
> slot_to_expcard[slot] = ec;
>
> - device_register(&ec->dev);
> -
> + rc = device_register(&ec->dev);
> + if (rc)
> + goto nodev;
> +
> return 0;
No. It is important that cards which are actually there remain present
even if device_register fails. In other words, we _really_ don't care
what device_register() returns.
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