- /* Samsung P30 has a device with a valid _HID whose INIT does not
- * return anything. Catch this one and any similar here */
- if (buffer.pointer == NULL) {
+ /* This is unlikely with implicit return */
+ if (buffer.pointer == NULL)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ model = (union acpi_object *) buffer.pointer;
+ /*
+ * Samsung P30 has a device with a valid _HID whose INIT does not
+ * return anything. It used to be possible to catch this exception,
+ * but the implicit return code will now happily confuse the
+ * driver. We assume that every ACPI_TYPE_STRING is a valid model
+ * identifier but it's still possible to get completely bogus data.
+ */
+ if (model->type == ACPI_TYPE_STRING) {
+ printk(KERN_NOTICE " %s model detected, ", model->string.pointer);
+ } else {