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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, "Kweh,
	Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] sysfs,kernfs: add flush operation
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:11:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150430131159.GC17936@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430348985.2189.39.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 04:09:45PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
> 
> This is necessary to allow sysfs operations to return error in close (we are
> using close to initiate and return a possible error from a transaction).
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>

Are there any side-affects now that we have a flush() call for binary
files that the vfs will act differently from not defining one at all?

if not, no objection to me for this change.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-30 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-29 23:07 [RFC 0/3] Add capsule update using error on close semantics James Bottomley
     [not found] ` <1430348859.2189.37.camel-d9PhHud1JfjCXq6kfMZ53/egYHeGw8Jk@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-29 23:09   ` [RFC 1/3] sysfs,kernfs: add flush operation James Bottomley
2015-04-30 13:11     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-04-30 14:52       ` James Bottomley
2015-04-29 23:10   ` [RFC 2/3] firmware_class: split out transaction helpers James Bottomley
     [not found]     ` <1430349052.2189.41.camel-d9PhHud1JfjCXq6kfMZ53/egYHeGw8Jk@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-30 13:11       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-30 14:39         ` James Bottomley
2015-08-27 14:47     ` Matt Fleming
2015-08-27 16:25       ` James Bottomley
     [not found]         ` <1440692717.2196.123.camel-d9PhHud1JfjCXq6kfMZ53/egYHeGw8Jk@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-27 19:43           ` Matt Fleming
2015-04-29 23:12 ` [RFC 3/3] efi: add capsule update capability via sysfs James Bottomley
     [not found]   ` <1430349130.2189.43.camel-d9PhHud1JfjCXq6kfMZ53/egYHeGw8Jk@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-29 23:25     ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]       ` <CALCETrV8bRj_CmCwZfHSV8bMF-vv0sab_7v5t0rpdhx2ib=wPw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-29 23:36         ` James Bottomley
     [not found]           ` <1430350592.2189.50.camel-d9PhHud1JfjCXq6kfMZ53/egYHeGw8Jk@public.gmane.org>
2015-04-29 23:39             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-30  9:30 ` [RFC 0/3] Add capsule update using error on close semantics Kweh, Hock Leong

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