From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Currently, fan.c ignores errors from acpi_bus_get_power. On compaq evo notebook that leads to very confusing empty output. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> --- 25-akpm/drivers/acpi/fan.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/fan.c~acpi-report-errors-in-fanc drivers/acpi/fan.c --- 25/drivers/acpi/fan.c~acpi-report-errors-in-fanc 2004-10-24 02:47:47.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/acpi/fan.c 2004-10-24 02:47:47.000000000 -0700 @@ -94,10 +94,10 @@ acpi_fan_read_state ( goto end; if (acpi_bus_get_power(fan->handle, &state)) - goto end; - - p += sprintf(p, "status: %s\n", - !state?"on":"off"); + p += sprintf(p, "status: ERROR\n"); + else + p += sprintf(p, "status: %s\n", + !state?"on":"off"); end: len = (p - page); _