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[PATCH] hostess -- return value check for register_netdev

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] hostess -- return value check for register_netdev
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:32:25 -0700
Cc: jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20031010000158.2dc9ce78.davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Open Source Development Lab
References: <20031009112714.18742308.shemminger@xxxxxxxx> <20031010000158.2dc9ce78.davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
Another driver that checks for register_netdev returing -1 when
it can return -EIO or -EEXIST.

diff -Nru a/drivers/net/wan/hostess_sv11.c b/drivers/net/wan/hostess_sv11.c
--- a/drivers/net/wan/hostess_sv11.c    Fri Oct 10 09:58:31 2003
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hostess_sv11.c    Fri Oct 10 09:58:31 2003
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@
                d->neigh_setup = hostess_neigh_setup_dev;
                d->set_mac_address = NULL;
                
-               if(register_netdev(d)==-1)
+               if(register_netdev(d))
                {
                        printk(KERN_ERR "%s: unable to register device.\n",
                                d->name);

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