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authorRolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>2006-09-29 02:00:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-29 09:18:16 -0700
commit3e26a423e78c1bb1ebd29c49d4ae4ccbbacd861b (patch)
tree9ef489f3ec27e1d4325ac2a2ed9f0f0031e63ef7 /drivers/char
parent416bc51292f977b43b010c6dd937522b90062390 (diff)
[PATCH] Return better error codes if drivers/char/raw.c module init fails
Currently this module just returns 1 if anything on module init fails. Store the error code of the different function calls and return their error on problems. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [ Fixed to not unregister twice on error ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/raw.c19
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/raw.c b/drivers/char/raw.c
index 579868af4a5..c596a08c07b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/raw.c
+++ b/drivers/char/raw.c
@@ -288,31 +288,34 @@ static struct cdev raw_cdev = {
static int __init raw_init(void)
{
dev_t dev = MKDEV(RAW_MAJOR, 0);
+ int ret;
- if (register_chrdev_region(dev, MAX_RAW_MINORS, "raw"))
+ ret = register_chrdev_region(dev, MAX_RAW_MINORS, "raw");
+ if (ret)
goto error;
cdev_init(&raw_cdev, &raw_fops);
- if (cdev_add(&raw_cdev, dev, MAX_RAW_MINORS)) {
+ ret = cdev_add(&raw_cdev, dev, MAX_RAW_MINORS);
+ if (ret) {
kobject_put(&raw_cdev.kobj);
- unregister_chrdev_region(dev, MAX_RAW_MINORS);
- goto error;
+ goto error_region;
}
raw_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "raw");
if (IS_ERR(raw_class)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Error creating raw class.\n");
cdev_del(&raw_cdev);
- unregister_chrdev_region(dev, MAX_RAW_MINORS);
- goto error;
+ ret = PTR_ERR(raw_class);
+ goto error_region;
}
class_device_create(raw_class, NULL, MKDEV(RAW_MAJOR, 0), NULL, "rawctl");
return 0;
+error_region:
+ unregister_chrdev_region(dev, MAX_RAW_MINORS);
error:
- printk(KERN_ERR "error register raw device\n");
- return 1;
+ return ret;
}
static void __exit raw_exit(void)