Re: [PATCH v2] backlight: propagate errors from get_brightness()

On 2021-09-07T14:10+0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:

On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 02:47:51PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

quoted

backlight.h documents "struct backlight_ops->get_brightness()" to return
a negative errno on failure.
So far these errors have not been handled in the backlight core.
This leads to negative values being exposed through sysfs although only
positive values are documented to be reported.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <redacted>

Thanks!

Thomas