Re: [PATCH] EFIFB: Fix error handling

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Tue Jun 14 2011 - 22:38:42 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 01:38:17AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Fix the error handling in the EFIFB driver if platform_driver_probe() fails.
> In that case, the code will pass the driver struct to the _device_
> unregistration function. It presumably should pass a pointer to the device
> struct instead.
>
> The compiler gives the following warning to indicate this:
>
> drivers/video/efifb.c: In function 'efifb_init':
> drivers/video/efifb.c:544:3: warning: passing argument 1 of 'platform_device_unregister' from incompatible pointer type
> include/linux/platform_device.h:40:13: note: expected 'struct platform_device *' but argument is of type 'struct platform_driver *'
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

Thanks, I've already queued a fix for this.
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