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

From: Carlo Caione
Date: Wed Apr 19 2017 - 12:24:24 EST


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.

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