+ thermal-spear13xx-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: thermal: spear13xx: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     thermal-spear13xx-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: thermal: spear13xx: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()

thermal_zone_device_register() never returns NULL, on error it returns and
ERR_PTR().

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/thermal/spear_thermal.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/thermal/spear_thermal.c~thermal-spear13xx-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err drivers/thermal/spear_thermal.c
--- a/drivers/thermal/spear_thermal.c~thermal-spear13xx-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err
+++ a/drivers/thermal/spear_thermal.c
@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ static int spear_thermal_probe(struct pl
 
 	spear_thermal = thermal_zone_device_register("spear_thermal", 0,
 				stdev, &ops, 0, 0, 0, 0);
-	if (!spear_thermal) {
+	if (IS_ERR(spear_thermal)) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "thermal zone device is NULL\n");
-		ret = -EINVAL;
+		ret = PTR_ERR(spear_thermal);
 		goto disable_clk;
 	}
 
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Subject: Subject: thermal: spear13xx: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()

Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
linux-next.patch
pps-class_create-returns-an-err_ptr-not-null.patch
c2port-class_create-returns-an-err_ptr.patch
thermal-spear13xx-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch
slab-introduce-kmalloc_array.patch
mm-compaction-make-compact_control-order-signed.patch
mm-compaction-make-compact_control-order-signed-fix.patch
drivers-leds-leds-tca6507c-cleanup-error-handling-in-tca6507_probe.patch
epoll-remove-unneeded-variable-in-reverse_path_check.patch

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