On Wed, 01 Nov 2006, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> On 11/1/06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >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)?
>
> Shouldn't it be -EIO or -EBUSY for transient errors (depending on
> type), and -ENXIO when not provided by hardware?
Sounds good to me, but I haven't seen much stuff returning -ENXIO. Still,
AFAIK usually when you don't support something in sysfs, you don't provide
the entry at all so ENXIO should be quite rare.
> The -EINVAL is more appropriate for bad user-supplied values (out of
> range etc.) to writable attributes.
Yes, that makes a lot of sense.
--
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Henrique Holschuh
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