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Date:   Tue, 21 Sep 2021 15:56:13 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To:     Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wei=DFschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>
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        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] backlight: propagate errors from get_brightness()
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On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

> On 2021-09-07T14:47+0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> > [..]
> 
> Friendly ping.

Don't do that.  If you think the submission has been forgotten about
(it hasn't), then please submit a [RESEND].  As it happens, this is on
my TOREVEW list.  I just need to get around to it post-vacation.

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