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Uwe Kleine-König committed fa9ee9c4b98
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>