ACPI fan: extract return values using PTR_ERR
Need to extract errors using PTR_ERR macro and
process accordingly. thermal_cooling_device_register
returning NULL means that CONFIG_THERMAL=n and in that
case no need to create symbolic links.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/fan.c b/drivers/acpi/fan.c
index 48cb705..c8e3cba 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/fan.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/fan.c
@@ -256,22 +256,28 @@
cdev = thermal_cooling_device_register("Fan", device,
&fan_cooling_ops);
- if (cdev)
+ if (IS_ERR(cdev)) {
+ result = PTR_ERR(cdev);
+ goto end;
+ }
+ if (cdev) {
printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX
"%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n",
device->dev.bus_id, cdev->id);
- else
- goto end;
- acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev;
- result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, &cdev->device.kobj,
- "thermal_cooling");
- if (result)
- return result;
- result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj, &device->dev.kobj,
- "device");
- if (result)
- return result;
+ acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev;
+ result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj,
+ &cdev->device.kobj,
+ "thermal_cooling");
+ if (result)
+ return result;
+
+ result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj,
+ &device->dev.kobj,
+ "device");
+ if (result)
+ return result;
+ }
result = acpi_fan_add_fs(device);
if (result)