From: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c b/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c index f70984a..de16e88 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c +++ b/drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c @@ -170,10 +170,13 @@ static int intel_menlow_memory_add(struct acpi_device *device) cdev = thermal_cooling_device_register("Memory controller", device, &memory_cooling_ops); - acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev; - if (!cdev) - result = -ENODEV; - else { + if (IS_ERR(cdev)) { + result = PTR_ERR(cdev); + goto end; + } + + if (cdev) { + acpi_driver_data(device) = cdev; result = sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, &cdev->device.kobj, "thermal_cooling"); if (result) -- 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