[ibm-acpi-devel] [ltp] Re: thinkpad-acpi release 0.17-20071002 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007, Chris Hanson wrote:
> What doesn't appear here is code to discard the input buffer when EINVAL
> is returned.  I don't understand where that is supposed to happen, since
> it would normally be handled by returning the number of characters read

If you return any valid error (like -EINVAL), the entire buffer is
discarded, and the write operation syscal fails with that error status.

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