Re: [PATCH 1/2] hp-wmi: Fix error value for hp_wmi_tablet_state

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Apr 19 2017 - 12:26:36 EST


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Carlo Caione <carlo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Carlo Caione <carlo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> From: Carlo Caione <carlo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> hp_wmi_tablet_state() fails to return the correct error code when
>>> hp_wmi_perform_query() returns the HP WMI query specific error code
>>> that is a positive value.
>>
>>> int ret = hp_wmi_perform_query(HPWMI_HARDWARE_QUERY, 0, &state,
>>> sizeof(state), sizeof(state));
>>> if (ret)
>>> - return ret;
>>> + return -EINVAL;
>>
>> Shouldn't be something like
>>
>> if (ret)
>> return ret < 0 ? ret : -EINVAL;
>>
>> Looking into the code it looks like it may return all possible values:
>> 0, negative, positive.
>
> When the HP WMI query returns a positive value something went wrong.
> hp_wmi_perform_query() returns 0 on success.

Yes, that's what I didn't object anyhow. My point is not to shadow
negative errors if any.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko