compat: backport PTR_RET()
mcgrof@frijol ~/linux-next (git::master)$ git describe --contains
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Author: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date: Tue Mar 22 16:34:05 2011 -0700
include/linux/err.h: add a function to cast error-pointers to a return value
PTR_RET() can be used if you have an error-pointer and are only interested
in the eventual error value, but not the pointer. Yields the usual 0 for
no error, -ESOMETHING otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>