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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] Couple of efivarfs fixes
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 21:49, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
>
> 1) Some apps want to monitor changes in EFI variables, but reading the
> file and comparing is inefficient. Just have Linnux update the
> modification time when a file is written
>
> 2) A rate limited read can return -EINTR ... very suprising to apps.
>
> Tony Luck (2):
> efivarfs: Update inode modification time for successful writes
> efivarfs: Don't return -EINTR when rate-limiting reads
>
> fs/efivarfs/file.c | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>

Queued in efi/urgent

Thanks,

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