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authorSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2014-07-24 12:21:03 +0200
committerSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2014-10-08 16:33:34 +0200
commitade058360233b8a701c66db282a21502e3a27f79 (patch)
tree46a9b7773fbf8eed6268ee8594a6a80ed1ca461d /lib/parameter.c
parentd096cafff7a83c6b946f350ef441918a65f9933d (diff)
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param: let dev_add_param return the newly created param
dev_add_param creates a new parameter so it makes more sense to return it than to return an error code. Since the return value is hardly ever checked this is only a small patch. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/parameter.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/parameter.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/parameter.c b/lib/parameter.c
index 84a632c34f..d6f8d16a09 100644
--- a/lib/parameter.c
+++ b/lib/parameter.c
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int __dev_add_param(struct param_d *param, struct device_d *dev, const ch
* expect the parameter value to be a string which can be freed with free(). Do
* not use static arrays when using the generic functions.
*/
-int dev_add_param(struct device_d *dev, const char *name,
+struct param_d *dev_add_param(struct device_d *dev, const char *name,
int (*set)(struct device_d *dev, struct param_d *p, const char *val),
const char *(*get)(struct device_d *dev, struct param_d *param),
unsigned long flags)
@@ -171,10 +171,12 @@ int dev_add_param(struct device_d *dev, const char *name,
param = xzalloc(sizeof(*param));
ret = __dev_add_param(param, dev, name, set, get, flags);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
free(param);
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
+ }
- return ret;
+ return param;
}
/**