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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 2/2] efi: an sysfs interface for user to update efi firmware
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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> James
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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC


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