[PATCH] IPMI: return correct value from ipmi_write

From: Wim Van Sebroeck
Date: Fri Jul 11 2008 - 16:33:26 EST


Hi Linus,

Please pull from 'master' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog.git
or if master.kernel.org hasn't synced up yet:
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog.git

This will update the following files:

drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

with these Changes:

Author: Mark Rustad <Rustad@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jul 10 14:27:11 2008 -0500

[PATCH] IPMI: return correct value from ipmi_write

This patch corrects the handling of write operations to the IPMI watchdog
to work as intended by returning the number of characters actually
processed. Without this patch, an "echo V >/dev/watchdog" enables the
watchdog if IPMI is providing the watchdog function.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <MRustad@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>

The Changes can also be looked at on:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog.git;a=summary

For completeness, I added the overal diff below.

Greetings,
Wim.

================================================================================
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
index 1b9a870..0e6df28 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c
@@ -755,9 +755,8 @@ static ssize_t ipmi_write(struct file *file,
rv = ipmi_heartbeat();
if (rv)
return rv;
- return 1;
}
- return 0;
+ return len;
}

static ssize_t ipmi_read(struct file *file,
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