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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:26 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> With the battery class driver, how would that be conveyed? Would the
> sysfs file be deleted in this case, or would the value of the sysfs
> key be something like "<invalid>". 

I'd be inclined to make the read return -EINVAL.

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dwmw2

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