Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 3/3] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Do not fail when encountering unsupported batteries

From: Hans de Goede
Date: Sun Oct 06 2024 - 06:31:49 EST


Hi,

On 1-Oct-24 11:28 PM, Armin Wolf wrote:
> If the battery hook encounters a unsupported battery, it will
> return an error. This in turn will cause the battery driver to
> automatically unregister the battery hook.
>
> On machines with multiple batteries however, this will prevent
> the battery hook from handling the primary battery, since it will
> always get unregistered upon encountering one of the unsupported
> batteries.
>
> Fix this by simply ignoring unsupported batteries.
>
> Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: ab58016c68cc ("platform/x86:dell-laptop: Add knobs to change battery charge settings")
> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>

Thank you for your patch/series, I've applied this patch
(series) to my review-hans branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/log/?h=review-hans

Note it will show up in the pdx86 review-hans branch once I've
pushed my local branch there, which might take a while.

I will include this patch in my next fixes pull-req to Linus
for the current kernel development cycle.

Regards,

Hans



> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-laptop.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-laptop.c
> index a3cd0505f282..5671bd0deee7 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-laptop.c
> @@ -2391,12 +2391,18 @@ static struct attribute *dell_battery_attrs[] = {
> };
> ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(dell_battery);
>
> +static bool dell_battery_supported(struct power_supply *battery)
> +{
> + /* We currently only support the primary battery */
> + return strcmp(battery->desc->name, "BAT0") == 0;
> +}
> +
> static int dell_battery_add(struct power_supply *battery,
> struct acpi_battery_hook *hook)
> {
> - /* this currently only supports the primary battery */
> - if (strcmp(battery->desc->name, "BAT0") != 0)
> - return -ENODEV;
> + /* Return 0 instead of an error to avoid being unloaded */
> + if (!dell_battery_supported(battery))
> + return 0;
>
> return device_add_groups(&battery->dev, dell_battery_groups);
> }
> @@ -2404,6 +2410,9 @@ static int dell_battery_add(struct power_supply *battery,
> static int dell_battery_remove(struct power_supply *battery,
> struct acpi_battery_hook *hook)
> {
> + if (!dell_battery_supported(battery))
> + return 0;
> +
> device_remove_groups(&battery->dev, dell_battery_groups);
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.39.5
>
>