linux-kernel - [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: should error return be nagative?

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Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:48:23 +0100
From:	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@....eng.br>,
	ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: should error return be nagative?

The returned error should be negative

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Is this maybe required?

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
index d93108d..03c0a56 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -6313,7 +6313,7 @@ static int brightness_write(char *buf)
 	 * Doing it this way makes the syscall restartable in case of EINTR
 	 */
 	rc = brightness_set(level);
-	return (rc == -EINTR)? ERESTARTSYS : rc;
+	return (rc == -EINTR)? -ERESTARTSYS : rc;
 }
 
 static struct ibm_struct brightness_driver_data = {
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