HID: input: return ENODATA if reading battery attrs fails
power_supply core has the bad habit of calling our battery callbacks from within power_supply_register(). Furthermore, if the callbacks fail with an unhandled error code, it will skip any uevent that it might currently process. So if HID-core registers battery devices, an "add" uevent is generated and the battery callbacks are called. These will gracefully fail due to timeouts as they might still hold locks on event processing. One could argue that this should be fixed in power_supply core, but the least we can do is to signal ENODATA so power_supply core will just skip the property and continue with the uevent. This fixes a bug where "add" and "remove" uevents are skipped for battery devices. upower is unable to track these devices and currently needs to ignore them. This patch also overwrites any other error code. I cannot see any reason why we should forward protocol- or I/O-errors to the power_supply core. We handle these errors in hid_ll_driver later, anyway, so just skip them. power_supply core cannot do anything useful with them, anyway, and we avoid skipping important uevents and confusing user-space. Thanks a lot to Daniel Nicoletti for pushing and investigating on this. Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Reported-by:Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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