Inspect the return value of register_netdev() in the driver probe routine and
return -ENODEV in case of error.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.a...@gmail.com>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
index 81134d3..f68df24 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
@@ -2955,7 +2955,8 @@ static int __devinit rtl8192_pci_probe(struct pci_dev
*pdev,
netif_carrier_off(dev);
netif_stop_queue(dev);
- register_netdev(dev);
+ if (register_netdev(dev))
+ goto err_free_irq;
RT_TRACE(COMP_INIT, "dev name: %s\n", dev->name);
rtl8192_proc_init_one(dev);
--
1.7.9.5
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