Re: [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: should error return be nagative?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Roel Kluin wrote:
> The returned error should be negative
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> Is this maybe required?

Yes, it is.  Thank you for noticing this.

Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

I will queue it, and send it in during the merge window, and also to -stable
so that it can go into 2.6.31.y and 2.6.32.y.

Andrew, if you'd rather send it to Linus right now since it is an obvious
one-char fix, well, I'd not oppose it at all :-)

> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> index d93108d..03c0a56 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -6313,7 +6313,7 @@ static int brightness_write(char *buf)
>  	 * Doing it this way makes the syscall restartable in case of EINTR
>  	 */
>  	rc = brightness_set(level);
> -	return (rc == -EINTR)? ERESTARTSYS : rc;
> +	return (rc == -EINTR)? -ERESTARTSYS : rc;
>  }
>  
>  static struct ibm_struct brightness_driver_data = {
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