My static checker complains because we use "dev_id" before we check for errors so it could be uninitialized. Fix this by moving the error handling forward a couple lines. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-roccat.c b/drivers/hid/hid-roccat.c index 65c4ccfc..76d06cf 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-roccat.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-roccat.c @@ -421,14 +421,13 @@ static int __init roccat_init(void) retval = alloc_chrdev_region(&dev_id, ROCCAT_FIRST_MINOR, ROCCAT_MAX_DEVICES, "roccat"); - - roccat_major = MAJOR(dev_id); - if (retval < 0) { pr_warn("can't get major number\n"); goto error; } + roccat_major = MAJOR(dev_id); + cdev_init(&roccat_cdev, &roccat_ops); retval = cdev_add(&roccat_cdev, dev_id, ROCCAT_MAX_DEVICES); -- 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