Re: -tip: origin tree boot crash

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

Hi Paul,

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:53:01PM +0100, Paul Rolland wrote:
> 
> Fixed this completely with the following two patches on top of 2.6.33-rc2 :
> 
> --- wmi.c.orig  2009-12-28 17:27:15.000000000 +0100
> +++ wmi.c       2009-12-28 17:39:01.000000000 +0100
> @@ -488,12 +488,13 @@
>  {
>         struct wmi_block *block;
>         acpi_status status;
> +       bool err;
>  
>         if (!guid || !handler)
>                 return AE_BAD_PARAMETER;
>  
> -       find_guid(guid, &block);
> -       if (!block)
> +       err = find_guid(guid, &block);
> +       if (!err)
>                 return AE_NOT_EXIST;
>  
>         if (block->handler)
> @@ -517,12 +518,13 @@
>  {
>         struct wmi_block *block;
>         acpi_status status;
> +       bool err;
>  
>         if (!guid)
>                 return AE_BAD_PARAMETER;
>  
> -       find_guid(guid, &block);
> -       if (!block)
> +       err = find_guid(guid, &block);
> +       if (!err)
>                 return AE_NOT_EXIST;
>  
>         if (!block->handler)
> 
> --- dell-wmi.c.orig     2009-12-28 17:49:09.000000000 +0100
> +++ dell-wmi.c  2009-12-28 17:41:36.000000000 +0100
> @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
>                 printk(KERN_ERR
>                         "dell-wmi: Unable to register notify handler - %d\n",
>                         err);
> -               return err;
> +               return -err;

This still leaks AE_* error codes to the upper layers which do not care
for them and expect the errors from Exxxx namespace.

I wonder why wmi is not using standard error codes but instead decided
to come up with it's own.

-- 
Dmitry