The patch titled dell_rbu: fix error check has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was dell_rbu-fix-error-check.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: dell_rbu: fix error check From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> platform_device_register_simple() returns error code as pointer when it fails. The return value should be checked by IS_ERR(). Cc: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c~dell_rbu-fix-error-check drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c --- a/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c~dell_rbu-fix-error-check +++ a/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c @@ -705,17 +705,16 @@ static struct bin_attribute rbu_packet_s static int __init dcdrbu_init(void) { - int rc = 0; + int rc; spin_lock_init(&rbu_data.lock); init_packet_head(); - rbu_device = - platform_device_register_simple("dell_rbu", -1, NULL, 0); - if (!rbu_device) { + rbu_device = platform_device_register_simple("dell_rbu", -1, NULL, 0); + if (IS_ERR(rbu_device)) { printk(KERN_ERR "dell_rbu:%s:platform_device_register_simple " "failed\n", __FUNCTION__); - return -EIO; + return PTR_ERR(rbu_device); } rc = sysfs_create_bin_file(&rbu_device->dev.kobj, &rbu_data_attr); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch acpi-fix-single-linked-list-manipulation.patch acpi-processor-prevent-loading-module-on-failures.patch drm-fix-return-value-check.patch git-input.patch input-make-serio_register_driver-return-error.patch input-check-serio_register_driver-error.patch input-check-whether-serio-dirver-registration-is-completed.patch input-change-to-gfp_kernel-for-serio_register_driver-event-allocation.patch git-mtd.patch gss_spkm3-fix-error-handling-in-module-init.patch auth_gss-unregister-gss_domain-when-unloading-module.patch auth_gss-unregister-gss_domain-when-unloading-module-fix.patch git-pcmcia.patch git-watchdog.patch paride-return-proper-error-code.patch bit-revese-library.patch crc32-replace-bitreverse-by-bitrev32.patch video-use-bitrev8.patch net-use-bitrev8.patch isdn-hisax-use-bitrev8.patch atm-ambassador-use-bitrev8.patch isdn-gigaset-use-bitrev8.patch isdn-fix-missing-unregister_capi_driver.patch fault-injection-documentation-and-scripts.patch fault-injection-capabilities-infrastructure.patch fault-injection-capabilities-infrastructure-tidy.patch fault-injection-capabilities-infrastructure-tweaks.patch fault-injection-capability-for-kmalloc.patch fault-injection-capability-for-kmalloc-failslab-remove-__gfp_highmem-filtering.patch fault-injection-capability-for-alloc_pages.patch fault-injection-capability-for-disk-io.patch fault-injection-process-filtering-for-fault-injection-capabilities.patch fault-injection-stacktrace-filtering.patch fault-injection-Kconfig-cleanup.patch fault-injection-stacktrace-filtering-kconfig-fix.patch fault-injection-Kconfig-cleanup-config_fault_injection-help-text.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html