linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] asus-laptop: correct error handling in sysfs_acpi

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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:35:51 +0300
From:	Giedrius Statkevičius 
	<giedrius.statkevicius@...il.com>
To:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Cc:	corentin.chary@...il.com, acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] asus-laptop: correct error handling in
 sysfs_acpi_set

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 01:19:55PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 03:01:57AM +0300, Giedrius Statkevičius wrote:
> > Properly return rv back to the caller in the case of an error in
> > parse_arg. In the process remove a unused variable 'out'.
> 
> The initial problem if I recall was value being uninitialized. Is that correct?
No, 'out' was just removed as it was unused. Then you caught the issue with
error handling in this function so I've updated this patch to fix that as well.