From: Jean Delvare Subject: pwmconfig: Deal gracefully with unreadable fan inputs References: boo#1181890 Upstream: not yet, submitted 2021-02-11 but upstream is dead If a hwmon driver exposes an unreadable fan input, let the user know and skip that input. Otherwise we hit syntax errors later on. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare --- prog/pwm/pwmconfig | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- lm-sensors.orig/prog/pwm/pwmconfig 2020-05-07 14:29:34.731733274 +0200 +++ lm-sensors/prog/pwm/pwmconfig 2021-02-11 11:31:40.636126815 +0100 @@ -283,8 +283,11 @@ sleep $DELAY echo 'Found the following fan sensors:' for i in $FAN do - S=$(cat $i) - if [ "$S" = "0" -o "$S" = "-1" ] + S=$(cat $i 2> /dev/null) + if [ $? -ne 0 ] + then + echo " $i current speed: can't read ... skipping!" + elif [ "$S" = "0" -o "$S" = "-1" ] then echo " $i current speed: 0 ... skipping!" else