We should be returning a negative error code instead of success here. This would have been detected by GCC, except that the "ret" variable was initialized with a bogus value to disable GCC's uninitialized variable warnings. I've cleaned that up, as well. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7291.c b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7291.c index 357cef2..7194bd1 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7291.c +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7291.c @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static int ad7291_probe(struct i2c_client *client, struct ad7291_platform_data *pdata = client->dev.platform_data; struct ad7291_chip_info *chip; struct iio_dev *indio_dev; - int ret = 0; + int ret; indio_dev = devm_iio_device_alloc(&client->dev, sizeof(*chip)); if (!indio_dev) @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ static int ad7291_probe(struct i2c_client *client, if (pdata && pdata->use_external_ref) { chip->reg = devm_regulator_get(&client->dev, "vref"); if (IS_ERR(chip->reg)) - return ret; + return PTR_ERR(chip->reg); ret = regulator_enable(chip->reg); if (ret) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html