Re: [PATCH] ACPI/Battery: Retry to get Battery information if failed during probing

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On Fri, 13 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--.  Otherwise it's possible for the 
final call to acpi_battery_update() to succeed and now it's returning 
-ENODEV.
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