linux-kernel - [PATCH 14/14] Ignore -ENODATA errors when generating a uevent

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Date:	Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:39:14 +0100
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
Cc:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...ux.it>,
	Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Subject: [PATCH 14/14] Ignore -ENODATA errors when generating a uevent

Sometimes a driver can not report a meaningful value for a certain property
and returns -ENODATA.

Currently when generating a uevent and a property return -ENODATA it is
treated as an error an no uevent is generated at all. This is not an
desirable behavior.

This patch adds a special case for -ENODATA and ignores properties which
return this error code when generating the uevent.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
---
 drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c b/drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c
index cd1f907..605514a 100644
--- a/drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ int power_supply_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 		attr = &power_supply_attrs[psy->properties[j]];
 
 		ret = power_supply_show_property(dev, attr, prop_buf);
-		if (ret == -ENODEV) {
+		if (ret == -ENODEV || ret == -ENODATA) {
 			/* When a battery is absent, we expect -ENODEV. Don't abort;
 			   send the uevent with at least the the PRESENT=0 property */
 			ret = 0;
-- 
1.7.2.3

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