From: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@xxxxxxxxx> Need to check whether thermal_cooling_device_register returned ERROR or not. Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/video.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c index 7f714fa..12cce69 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c @@ -731,6 +731,9 @@ static void acpi_video_device_find_cap(struct acpi_video_device *device) device->cdev = thermal_cooling_device_register("LCD", device->dev, &video_cooling_ops); + if (IS_ERR(device->cdev)) + return; + if (device->cdev) { printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "%s is registered as cooling_device%d\n", -- 1.5.4 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html