diff --git a/drivers/media/video/vivi.c b/drivers/media/video/vivi.c
index 37632a0649667c8102eabe2567f1fb882d2b7abd..cdbe70385c12aff749d18f955674b0e4274be2a0 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/vivi.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/vivi.c
@@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@ static int __init vivi_create_instance(int inst)
 	/* Now that everything is fine, let's add it to device list */
 	list_add_tail(&dev->vivi_devlist, &vivi_devlist);
 
-	if (video_nr >= 0)
+	if (video_nr != -1)
 		video_nr++;
 
 	dev->vfd = vfd;