aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>2005-06-27 16:29:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-27 18:03:22 -0700
commit1a8ceafce5f1e68c28c7ba52fd7e72ab0008eb46 (patch)
tree35cda6b26cdd92f2f4ed66cc43fc0d82a1ebeb2c
parenta9a55243d4a5f41b0035d36457b87463aa232807 (diff)
[PATCH] pcmcia: properly handle all errors of register_chrdev
register_chrdev() can return errors (negative) other then -EBUSY, so check for any negative error code. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
index 3084d8a3ba4..b883bc151ed 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_ioctl.c
@@ -760,9 +760,9 @@ void __init pcmcia_setup_ioctl(void) {
/* Set up character device for user mode clients */
i = register_chrdev(0, "pcmcia", &ds_fops);
- if (i == -EBUSY)
+ if (i < 0)
printk(KERN_NOTICE "unable to find a free device # for "
- "Driver Services\n");
+ "Driver Services (error=%d)\n", i);
else
major_dev = i;