diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 293a24414796..e6f2d62123ef 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 4ebb52d34fac2904e541ccfa8e32126db836fa92
+refs/heads/master: e74783ec3cb981211689bd2cfd3248f8dc48ec01
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c b/trunk/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
index af4491fa7e34..307d976c9b69 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
@@ -583,8 +583,10 @@ static int __init i2c_dev_init(void)
 		goto out;
 
 	i2c_dev_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "i2c-dev");
-	if (IS_ERR(i2c_dev_class))
+	if (IS_ERR(i2c_dev_class)) {
+		res = PTR_ERR(i2c_dev_class);
 		goto out_unreg_chrdev;
+	}
 
 	res = i2c_add_driver(&i2cdev_driver);
 	if (res)