hwmon: (adt7470) Return proper error code for adt7470_probe()

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
index 9e77571..87d92a5 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
@@ -1286,8 +1286,10 @@ static int adt7470_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
        init_completion(&data->auto_update_stop);
        data->auto_update = kthread_run(adt7470_update_thread, client,
                                        dev_name(data->hwmon_dev));
-       if (IS_ERR(data->auto_update))
+       if (IS_ERR(data->auto_update)) {
+               err = PTR_ERR(data->auto_update);
                goto exit_unregister;
+       }
 
        return 0;