battery alarm is checked whether BIOS supports it before past to BIOS; however, the value is updatd without being checked. This causes alarm return an incorrect value that never represents an actual state BIOS is in. Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/battery.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c index 86933ca..14548e8 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c @@ -535,7 +535,8 @@ static ssize_t acpi_battery_alarm_store(struct device *dev, { unsigned long x; struct acpi_battery *battery = to_acpi_battery(dev_get_drvdata(dev)); - if (sscanf(buf, "%ld\n", &x) == 1) + if (sscanf(buf, "%ld\n", &x) == 1 && + test_bit(ACPI_BATTERY_ALARM_PRESENT, &battery->flags)) battery->alarm = x/1000; if (acpi_battery_present(battery)) acpi_battery_set_alarm(battery); @@ -805,7 +806,8 @@ static ssize_t acpi_battery_write_alarm(struct file *file, goto end; } alarm_string[count] = '\0'; - battery->alarm = simple_strtol(alarm_string, NULL, 0); + if (test_bit(ACPI_BATTERY_ALARM_PRESENT, &battery->flags)) + battery->alarm = simple_strtol(alarm_string, NULL, 0); result = acpi_battery_set_alarm(battery); end: if (!result) -- 1.7.0.4 -- 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