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Consumers can differentiate an error from a successful read much more easily if the read() call fails with an appropriate errno instead of returning a magic string like "-1". This introduces an ABI change, but not many users are expected to be relying on the previous behavior, and this change makes this module conforming to the standard behavior that sysfs attribute show/store callbacks return an appropriate errno in case of failure. Thus the ABI breakage is deemed justified. Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <pobrn@protonmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210203215403.290792-15-pobrn@protonmail.com Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.