Re: Regression 2.6.39-rc1 for sony-laptop

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:55:38PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On 4/2/11, Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c
> > @@ -810,6 +810,11 @@ static int sony_nc_handles_cleanup(struct
> > platform_device *pd)
> >  static int sony_find_snc_handle(int handle)
> >  {
> >  	int i;
> > +
> > +	/* not initialized yet, return early */
> > +	if (!handles)
> > +		return -1;
> 
> -1 is -EPERM.  That's not the right error code here.  Maybe -EINVAL?

this error is not propagated to userspace. If necessary I can review all
error codes in the sony-laptop internal functions (where -1 is a fairly
common return code for error conditions).

I remember a discussion on LKML recently about error codes but I'm not
sure what the outcome was (if any).

-- 
mattia
:wq!