The patch titled backlight: backlight_device_register() return ERR_PTR() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was backlight-backlight_device_register-return-err_ptr.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: backlight: backlight_device_register() return ERR_PTR() From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> backlight_device_register() returns a valid pointer or ERR_PTR() never NULL. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/backlight/adx_bl.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/video/backlight/adx_bl.c~backlight-backlight_device_register-return-err_ptr drivers/video/backlight/adx_bl.c --- a/drivers/video/backlight/adx_bl.c~backlight-backlight_device_register-return-err_ptr +++ a/drivers/video/backlight/adx_bl.c @@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ static int __devinit adx_backlight_probe props.max_brightness = 0xff; bldev = backlight_device_register(dev_name(&pdev->dev), &pdev->dev, bl, &adx_backlight_ops, &props); - if (!bldev) { - ret = -ENOMEM; + if (IS_ERR(bldev)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(bldev); goto out; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch power_meter-acpi_device_class-power_meter_resource-too-long.patch sbshc-acpi_device_class-smbus_host_controller-too-long.patch acpi_pad-processor_aggregator-name-too-long.patch acpi_pad-processor_aggregator-name-too-long-fix.patch drivers-gpu-drm-via-via_videoc-fix-off-by-one-issue.patch drivers-gpu-drm-radeon-radeon_atombiosc-range-check-issues.patch drivers-gpu-drm-drm_sysfsc-sysfs-files-error-handling.patch drivers-gpu-drm-drm_memoryc-fix-check-for-end-of-loop.patch drivers-media-video-au0828-au0828-videoc-off-by-one-bug.patch drivers-media-video-zc0301-zc0301_corec-improve-error-handling.patch drivers-media-video-et61x251-et61x251_corec-improve-error-handling.patch drivers-media-video-sn9c102-sn9c102_corec-improve-error-handling.patch cx88-improve-error-handling.patch ir-keytable-avoid-double-lock.patch cx231xx-improve-error-handling.patch gpio-potential-null-dereference.patch scsi-remove-superfluous-null-pointer-check-from-scsi_kill_request.patch drivers-staging-otus-hal-hpanic-using-the-wrong-variable.patch drivers-staging-comedi-drivers-dt2801c-off-by-one-issue.patch usb-oxu210hp-release-spinlock-on-error-path.patch mm-document-follow_page.patch dynamic_debug-small-cleanup-in-ddebug_proc_write.patch sis-strcpy-=-strlcpy.patch proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments.patch fs-sysv-dereferencing-err_ptr.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