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From: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@gmail.com>
To: dan.carpenter@oracle.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	kirk@reisers.ca, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	speakup@linux-speakup.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.com, chris@the-brannons.com
Cc: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] Staging: speakup: kobjects: Return the error type to caller
Date: Mon,  7 Dec 2015 15:29:58 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1449482398-9435-1-git-send-email-saurabh.truth@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151207083109.GC18797@mwanda>

Inorder to notify the user that value is not successfuly set in sys
entry, error should be returned from store function instead of count

Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@gmail.com>
---
v2:
Hi Dan,
I will look more into this function in my free time.
For now just sending you this patch fixing ERANGE as commented
 drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c | 4 +++-
 drivers/staging/staging.c          | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
index fdfeb42..509163c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ ssize_t spk_var_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
 			len = E_INC;
 		else
 			len = E_SET;
-		if (kstrtol(cp, 10, &value) == 0)
+		if (!kstrtol(cp, 10, &value))
 			ret = spk_set_num_var(value, param, len);
 		else
 			pr_warn("overflow or parsing error has occurred");
@@ -688,6 +688,8 @@ ssize_t spk_var_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
 
 	if (ret == -ERESTART)
 		pr_info("%s reset to default value\n", param->name);
+	else if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
 	return count;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spk_var_store);
diff --git a/drivers/staging/staging.c b/drivers/staging/staging.c
index 233e589..36dd594 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/staging.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/staging.c
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 
-static int __init staging_init(void)
+static int staging_init(void)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void __exit staging_exit(void)
+static void staging_exit(void)
 {
 }
 
-- 
1.9.1


      reply	other threads:[~2015-12-07 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04 14:42 [PATCH] " Saurabh Sengar
2015-12-07  6:48 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-12-07  7:16   ` Saurabh Sengar
2015-12-07  8:31     ` Dan Carpenter
2015-12-07  9:59       ` Saurabh Sengar [this message]

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