On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > In fact, the driver is supposed to return -ENODATA in that case, which will > result in the read from /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/current_now fail (I guess > upower should be able to cope with that). ENODATA? Shouldn't it be ENXIO? There is no non-blocking data stream involved in a sysfs attribute. Of course, the RIGHT thing would be to not expose in sysfs attributes that are unsupported by the firmware/hardware in the first place, but that's easier said than done. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html