Re: [PATCH] backlight: report error on failure

[Lee Jones]

Cc'ing Daniel Thompson, the new Maintainer.

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:

> It is possible to update the backlight power and the brightness using
> the sysfs and on writing it either returns the count or if the callback
> function does not exist then returns the error code 'ENXIO'.
> 
> We have a situation where the userspace client is writing to the sysfs
> to update the power and since the callback function exists the client
> receives the return value as count and considers the operation to be
> successful. That is correct as the write to the sysfs was successful.
> But there is no way to know if the actual operation was done or not.
> 
> backlight_update_status() returns the error code if it fails. Pass that
> to the userspace client who is trying to update the power so that the
> client knows that the operation failed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 7 +++----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
> index 288318a..74b72b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
> @@ -146,9 +146,9 @@ static ssize_t bl_power_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
>  		pr_debug("set power to %lu\n", power);
>  		if (bd->props.power != power) {
>  			bd->props.power = power;
> -			backlight_update_status(bd);
> +			rc = backlight_update_status(bd);
>  		}
> -		rc = count;
> +		rc = rc ? rc : count;
>  	}
>  	mutex_unlock(&bd->ops_lock);
>  
> @@ -176,8 +176,7 @@ int backlight_device_set_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd,
>  		else {
>  			pr_debug("set brightness to %lu\n", brightness);
>  			bd->props.brightness = brightness;
> -			backlight_update_status(bd);
> -			rc = 0;
> +			rc = backlight_update_status(bd);
>  		}
>  	}
>  	mutex_unlock(&bd->ops_lock);

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Lee Jones
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