Re: [PATCH 1/5] ACPI: battery: Do not unload battery hooks on single error

From: Hans de Goede
Date: Mon Sep 19 2022 - 06:49:55 EST


Hi,

On 9/12/22 13:53, Armin Wolf wrote:
> Currently, battery hooks are being unloaded if they return
> an error when adding a single battery.
> This however also causes the removal of successfully added
> hooks if they return -ENODEV for a single unsupported
> battery.
>
> Do not unload battery hooks in such cases since the hook
> handles any cleanup actions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>

Maybe instead of removing all error checking, allow -ENODEV
and behave as before when the error is not -ENODEV ?

Otherwise we should probably make the add / remove callbacks
void to indicate that any errors are ignored.

Rafael, do you have any opinion on this?

Regards,

Hans

> ---
> drivers/acpi/battery.c | 24 +++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> index 306513fec1e1..e59c261c7c59 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> @@ -724,20 +724,10 @@ void battery_hook_register(struct acpi_battery_hook *hook)
> * its attributes.
> */
> list_for_each_entry(battery, &acpi_battery_list, list) {
> - if (hook->add_battery(battery->bat)) {
> - /*
> - * If a add-battery returns non-zero,
> - * the registration of the extension has failed,
> - * and we will not add it to the list of loaded
> - * hooks.
> - */
> - pr_err("extension failed to load: %s", hook->name);
> - __battery_hook_unregister(hook, 0);
> - goto end;
> - }
> + hook->add_battery(battery->bat);
> }
> pr_info("new extension: %s\n", hook->name);
> -end:
> +
> mutex_unlock(&hook_mutex);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(battery_hook_register);
> @@ -762,15 +752,7 @@ static void battery_hook_add_battery(struct acpi_battery *battery)
> * during the battery module initialization.
> */
> list_for_each_entry_safe(hook_node, tmp, &battery_hook_list, list) {
> - if (hook_node->add_battery(battery->bat)) {
> - /*
> - * The notification of the extensions has failed, to
> - * prevent further errors we will unload the extension.
> - */
> - pr_err("error in extension, unloading: %s",
> - hook_node->name);
> - __battery_hook_unregister(hook_node, 0);
> - }
> + hook_node->add_battery(battery->bat);
> }
> mutex_unlock(&hook_mutex);
> }
> --
> 2.30.2
>