On Wed, 01 Nov 2006, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:26 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > With the battery class driver, how would that be conveyed? Would the
> > sysfs file be deleted in this case, or would the value of the sysfs
> > key be something like "<invalid>".
>
> I'd be inclined to make the read return -EINVAL.
-EIO for transient errors (e.g. access to the embedded controller/battery
charger/whatever fails at that instant), -EINVAL for "not supported"
(missing ACPI method, attribute not supported in the specific hardware)?
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