The disp attribute is write-only, but sysfs doesn't know this. Currently show_sys_acpi() is mimicking sysfs behavior, if the underlying acpi call should fail. This is not ideal; behaving like sysfs is better left to sysfs. Introduce EEEPC_CREATE_DEVICE_ATTR_WO() to instantiate a write-only attribute, and declare the disp attribute with it. Sysfs makes sure userspace can only write to disp at all times. This also means we can back to propagating any errors from get_acpi(). Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c index 3c04b77..4f6490d 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static ssize_t show_sys_acpi(struct device *dev, int cm, char *buf) int value = get_acpi(eeepc, cm); if (value < 0) - return -EIO; + return value; return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", value); } @@ -316,9 +316,13 @@ static ssize_t show_sys_acpi(struct device *dev, int cm, char *buf) EEEPC_ACPI_STORE_FUNC(_name, _cm) \ static DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, show_##_name, store_##_name) +#define EEEPC_CREATE_DEVICE_ATTR_WO(_name, _mode, _cm) \ + EEEPC_ACPI_STORE_FUNC(_name, _cm) \ + static DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, NULL, store_##_name) + EEEPC_CREATE_DEVICE_ATTR(camera, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, CM_ASL_CAMERA); EEEPC_CREATE_DEVICE_ATTR(cardr, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, CM_ASL_CARDREADER); -EEEPC_CREATE_DEVICE_ATTR(disp, S_IWUSR, CM_ASL_DISPLAYSWITCH); +EEEPC_CREATE_DEVICE_ATTR_WO(disp, S_IWUSR, CM_ASL_DISPLAYSWITCH); struct eeepc_cpufv { int num; -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html