[PATCH] Fix error handling in backlight drivers

ERR_PTR() is supposed to be passed a negative value.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
index bd39bbd88d41..151fda8dded0 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ struct backlight_device *backlight_device_register(const char *name, void *devda
 
         new_bd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct backlight_device), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (unlikely(!new_bd))
-                return ERR_PTR(ENOMEM);
+                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
         init_MUTEX(&new_bd->sem);
         new_bd->props = bp;