Re: [PATCH] ACPI / Battery: Return -ENODATA for unknown values inget_property() (was: Re: Returning ACPI_BATTERY ...)

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Sun Oct 17 2010 - 01:20:16 EST


On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> In fact, the driver is supposed to return -ENODATA in that case, which will
> result in the read from /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/current_now fail (I guess
> upower should be able to cope with that).

ENODATA? Shouldn't it be ENXIO? There is no non-blocking data stream
involved in a sysfs attribute.

Of course, the RIGHT thing would be to not expose in sysfs attributes
that are unsupported by the firmware/hardware in the first place, but
that's easier said than done.

--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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