Re: [PATCH] ACPI / Battery: Return -ENODATA for unknown values in get_property()

From: Richard Hughes
Date: Fri Oct 22 2010 - 08:31:36 EST


On 21 October 2010 17:54, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess there are a whole bunch of other attributes that could
> theoretically be -1 and shouldn't be used if they return it...

I think checking for <0 is probably a good idea, and I'm a little
surprised we don't do this already. Patch welcome, if this is what you
decide to do.

Richard.
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