On 2014年06月17日 09:27, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Lan Tianyu wrote: > >>>> How about this? >>>> >>>> - result = acpi_battery_update(battery, false); >>>> - if (result) >>>> + >>>> + /* >>>> + * Some machines'(E,G Lenovo Z480) ECs are not stable >>>> + * during boot up and this causes battery driver fails to be >>>> + * probed due to failure of getting battery information >>>> + * from EC sometimes. After several retries, the operation >>>> + * may work. So add retry code here and 20ms sleep between >>>> + * every retries. >>>> + */ >>>> + while (acpi_battery_update(battery, false) && retry--) >>>> + msleep(20); >>>> + if (!retry) { >>>> + result = -ENODEV; >>>> goto fail; >>>> + } >>>> + >>> >>> I think you want --retry and not retry--. >> >> My original purpose is to retry 5 times after the first try fails. >> If use "--retry" here, it just retries 4 times. >> >>> Otherwise it's possible for the >>> final call to acpi_battery_update() to succeed and now it's returning >>> -ENODEV. >>> >> >> Yes, it maybe and I will change code like the following. >> >> while ((result = acpi_battery_update(battery, false)) && retry--) >> msleep(20); >> if (result) >> goto fail; >> > > Looks good. > Great. Thanks for review. :) -- Best regards Tianyu Lan -- 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