diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index eb522563d478..4185c005b967 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 72cc8e51cfdde9007adab7d841ac4113b05b2c56
+refs/heads/master: 6ba8bcd457d9fc793ac9435aa2e4138f571d4ec5
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c b/trunk/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
index 96e8e70fbf1e..11b8ea29d2b7 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
@@ -719,6 +719,9 @@ cmos_do_probe(struct device *dev, struct resource *ports, int rtc_irq)
 		}
 	}
 
+	cmos_rtc.dev = dev;
+	dev_set_drvdata(dev, &cmos_rtc);
+
 	cmos_rtc.rtc = rtc_device_register(driver_name, dev,
 				&cmos_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
 	if (IS_ERR(cmos_rtc.rtc)) {
@@ -726,8 +729,6 @@ cmos_do_probe(struct device *dev, struct resource *ports, int rtc_irq)
 		goto cleanup0;
 	}
 
-	cmos_rtc.dev = dev;
-	dev_set_drvdata(dev, &cmos_rtc);
 	rename_region(ports, dev_name(&cmos_rtc.rtc->dev));
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&rtc_lock);