Re: [PATCH 10/25] sony-laptop: keyboard backlight support extended to newer Vaios

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On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 01:41:35PM +0200, Marco Chiappero wrote:
> Il 04/06/2011 13:23, Mattia Dongili ha scritto:
> >>Just for safety, since handle 0x0000 is a valid handle [1] it would
> >>be better to initialize it to an invalid value.
> >
> >0x0 is not valid, it's just the lack of a value.
> 
> But you can use it. "Just for safety" we'd better set to an invalid
> value that cannot be used by the acpi methods.
> 
> >>[1]
> >>sony_laptop: found handle 0x0000 (offset: 0x0d)
> >>sony_laptop: called SN07 with 0x000d (result: 0x0000)
> >
> >this is only going through the handles buffer and telling you that at
> >0x0d there is nothing.
> 
> the calling code:
> 
> ret = sony_call_snc_handle(0, 0, &result);
> 
> it returns 0.

this is easily fixed and should be fixed since 0x0 is not a valid
handle.

> sony_find_snc_handle should return -1 when called with handle == -1, right?
-- 
mattia
:wq!
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