Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix no idle state information return value

From: Thomas Renninger
Date: Wed Dec 17 2014 - 11:27:08 EST


On Sunday, December 14, 2014 09:06:38 AM Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> sysfs_get_idlestate_count() returns an unsigned int. Returning -ENODEV
> is not the right thing to do here, and in any case is handled the same
> way as if there are no states found.
Yep, returning zero states instead of an error code makes a lot sense
here.

>
> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Thomas

> ---
> tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/sysfs.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/sysfs.c
> b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/sysfs.c index 09afe5d..4e8fe2c 100644
> --- a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/sysfs.c
> +++ b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/sysfs.c
> @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ unsigned int sysfs_get_idlestate_count(unsigned int cpu)
>
> snprintf(file, SYSFS_PATH_MAX, PATH_TO_CPU "cpuidle");
> if (stat(file, &statbuf) != 0 || !S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode))
> - return -ENODEV;
> + return 0;
>
> snprintf(file, SYSFS_PATH_MAX, PATH_TO_CPU "cpu%u/cpuidle/state0",
cpu);
> if (stat(file, &statbuf) != 0 || !S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode))

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