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iio: event_monitor: report unsupported events

This makes the event monitor bail out with a helpful error
message if a device does not support events, as a related
fix to iio core now makes it return -ENODEV properly.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Linus Walleij 10 years ago
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1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 5 1
      tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c

+ 5 - 1
tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c

@@ -284,7 +284,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	ret = ioctl(fd, IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL, &event_fd);
 	if (ret == -1 || event_fd == -1) {
 		ret = -errno;
-		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to retrieve event fd\n");
+		if (ret == -ENODEV)
+			fprintf(stderr,
+				"This device does not support events\n");
+		else
+			fprintf(stderr, "Failed to retrieve event fd\n");
 		if (close(fd) == -1)
 			perror("Failed to close character device file");