On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 3:27 AM, Giedrius Statkevičius
<giedrius.statkevic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is possible that acpi_evaluate_integer might fail and value would not be
> set to any value so correct this defect by returning 0 in case of an
> error. This is also the correct thing to return because the backlight
> subsystem will print the old value of brightness in this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Giedrius Statkevičius <giedrius.statkevic...@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> index 9a69734..15f1311 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c
> @@ -775,8 +775,10 @@ static int asus_read_brightness(struct backlight_device
> *bd)
>
> rv = acpi_evaluate_integer(asus->handle, METHOD_BRIGHTNESS_GET,
> NULL, &value);
> - if (ACPI_FAILURE(rv))
> + if (ACPI_FAILURE(rv)) {
> pr_warn("Error reading brightness\n");
> + return 0;
> + }
This looks like a workaround.
I suppose the real fix is to return here an error code and fix all callers, like
drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c.
>
> return value;
> }
> --
> 2.8.0
>
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
