Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:58:58 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] efi: an sysfs interface for user to update efi firmware |
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 6:21 PM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote: > Andy, just on the misc device idea, what about triggering the capsule > update from close()? In theory close returns an error code (not sure if > most tools actually check this, though). That means we can do the write > in chunks but pass it in atomically on the close and cat will work > (provided it checks the return code of close).
I thought about this but IIRC cat doesn't check the return value from close.
--Andy
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-- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC
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