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authorCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>2007-07-19 11:44:11 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2007-07-20 17:35:55 -0300
commit32b78de7fee70a0bdb2081b23fc2b676ec566814 (patch)
tree31b947f0d19dcecd53768ce37e075c7612fc822b /drivers/media
parenta46c5fbc6912c4e34cb7ded314249b639dc244a6 (diff)
downloadlinux-32b78de7fee70a0bdb2081b23fc2b676ec566814.tar.gz
V4L/DVB (5871): Conexant 2388x: check for kthread_run
The patch adds checking of kthread_run return code and issues a message
if it fails.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c b/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c
index 98fa35421bdd..06b233a7b20b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c
@@ -1881,8 +1881,14 @@ static int __devinit cx8800_initdev(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
 	mutex_unlock(&core->lock);
 
 	/* start tvaudio thread */
-	if (core->tuner_type != TUNER_ABSENT)
+	if (core->tuner_type != TUNER_ABSENT) {
 		core->kthread = kthread_run(cx88_audio_thread, core, "cx88 tvaudio");
+		if (IS_ERR(core->kthread)) {
+			err = PTR_ERR(core->kthread);
+			printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to create cx88 audio thread, err=%d\n",
+			       err);
+		}
+	}
 	return 0;
 
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