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

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Saturday, October 23, 2010, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:19:13AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 
> > OK, so can you test the patch below, please?
> 
> The latest patch seems to fix/workaround the problem. upower now reports
> 0 as the energy rate, there are no warnings in dmesg and battery hotplug
> works. Looks good and there's the option for a future upower to
> interpret the missing sysfs as meaning "unknown".
> 
> Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>

Thanks for testing!

> > The function acpi_battery_get_property() is called by the
> > power supply framework's function power_supply_show_property()
> > implementing the sysfs interface for power supply devices as the
> > ACPI battery driver's ->get_property() callback.  Thus it is supposed
> > to return error code if the value of the given property is unknown.
> > Unfortunately, however, it returns 0 in those cases and puts a
> > wrong (negative) value into the intval field of the
> > union power_supply_propval object provided by
> > power_supply_show_property().  In consequence, wron negative
> 
> wron -> wrong?

Sure, thanks.

> > Fix this by making acpi_battery_get_property() return -ENODEV
> > for properties with unknown values (-ENODEV is returned, because
> > power_supply_uevent() returns with error for any other error code
> > returned by power_supply_show_property()).
> 
> OK that's sneaky and clever - technically power_supply_uevent should be
> more robust but presumably things are already prepared to handle -ENODEV

Yes, they are.  That's why I decided to use it. :-)

> so overloading the meaning leads to the smallest change.

That's correct.

I'll repost the patch shortly with fixed changelog and your tested-by.

Thanks,
Rafael