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

[Chris Hanson]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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.

Well, that's clearly not happening for me.  How do I track this down?
Where's the caller?