[PATCH] ata: fix platform_device_register_simple() error check
The return value of platform_device_register_simple() should be checked
by IS_ERR().
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c b/drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c
index c7d1738..e7bf9d8 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c
@@ -698,8 +698,10 @@
goto fail_io;
pdev = platform_device_register_simple(DRV_NAME, nr_legacy_host, NULL, 0);
- if (pdev == NULL)
+ if (IS_ERR(pdev)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(pdev);
goto fail_dev;
+ }
if (ht6560a & mask) {
ops = &ht6560a_port_ops;