Merge tag 'char-misc-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the "big" char and misc driver update for 4.9-rc1.

  Lots of little things here, all over the driver tree for subsystems
  that flow through me. Nothing major that I can discern, full details
  are in the shortlog.

  All have been in the linux-next tree with no reported issues"

* tag 'char-misc-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (144 commits)
  drivers/misc/hpilo: Changes to support new security states in iLO5 FW
  at25: fix debug and error messaging
  misc/genwqe: ensure zero initialization
  vme: fake: remove unexpected unlock in fake_master_set()
  vme: fake: mark symbols static where possible
  spmi: pmic-arb: Return an error code if sanity check fails
  Drivers: hv: get rid of id in struct vmbus_channel
  Drivers: hv: make VMBus bus ids persistent
  mcb: Add a dma_device to mcb_device
  mcb: Enable PCI bus mastering by default
  mei: stop the stall timer worker if not needed
  clk: probe common clock drivers earlier
  vme: fake: fix build for 64-bit dma_addr_t
  ttyprintk: Neaten and simplify printing
  mei: me: add kaby point device ids
  coresight: tmc: mark symbols static where possible
  coresight: perf: deal with error condition properly
  Drivers: hv: hv_util: Avoid dynamic allocation in time synch
  fpga manager: Add hardware dependency to Zynq driver
  Drivers: hv: utils: Support TimeSync version 4.0 protocol samples.
  ...

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/snsc.c b/drivers/char/snsc.c
index 94006f9..10e5632 100644
--- a/drivers/char/snsc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/snsc.c
@@ -385,13 +385,18 @@ scdrv_init(void)
 
 	event_nasid = ia64_sn_get_console_nasid();
 
+	snsc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, SYSCTL_BASENAME);
+	if (IS_ERR(snsc_class)) {
+		printk("%s: failed to allocate class\n", __func__);
+		return PTR_ERR(snsc_class);
+	}
+
 	if (alloc_chrdev_region(&first_dev, 0, num_cnodes,
 				SYSCTL_BASENAME) < 0) {
 		printk("%s: failed to register SN system controller device\n",
 		       __func__);
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
-	snsc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, SYSCTL_BASENAME);
 
 	for (cnode = 0; cnode < num_cnodes; cnode++) {
 			geoid = cnodeid_get_geoid(cnode);