[Pkg-tpctl-devel] Bug#359963: tpctl exits instead of continuing on SMAPI error

[Chip Salzenberg]

Package: tpctl
Version: 4.17-2
Severity: normal

My A30 doesn't quite support the entire SMAPI command set, apparently.
However, rather than noting this and continuing, tpctl just exits.  For
example, the output of tpctl --px is cut short when the error occurs:

    # tpctl --px
    power management modes:
       ac power expenditure:                              high
       battery power expenditure:                         auto
    [...]
    power management delays of Zuspend or hibernate:      current
                (specifiable in each power mode)?
       ac power "manual" expenditure mode:  Y             5 minutes
    tpctl: SMAPI BIOS error 0x81 ("invalid parameter") -- exiting.
    #

FWIW, when this error occurs, the kernel module logs this error:

    smapi: SMAPI BIOS return codes differ!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages tpctl depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.72     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  lsb-base                      3.0-16     Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii  thinkpad-base                 5.9-2      Configuration files for thinkpad-m

Versions of packages tpctl recommends:
ii  thinkpad-modules-2.6.16-1 5.9-2+2.6.16-4 Device driver modules for configur
ii  thinkpad-source           5.9-2          Source code for thinkpad-modules p

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