The common format to check if a function returned an error pointer is to use PTR_ERR(). Instead of ERR_PTR() which is used to return said errors. Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_debugfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_debugfs.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_debugfs.c index fcbc95d..48797dc 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_debugfs.c @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int __init wilc_debugfs_init(void) struct wilc_debugfs_info_t *info; wilc_dir = debugfs_create_dir("wilc_wifi", NULL); - if (wilc_dir == ERR_PTR(-ENODEV)) { + if (PTR_ERR(wilc_dir) == -ENODEV) { /* it's not error. the debugfs is just not being enabled. */ printk("ERR, kernel has built without debugfs support\n"); return 0; -- 2.6.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel