Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:31:38 +0100 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH next] sysfs: fix sysfs_write_file for bin file |
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:44:53PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > Before patch(sysfs: prepare path write for unified regular / bin > file handling), when size of bin file is zero, writting still can > continue, but this patch changes the behaviour. > > The worse thing is that firmware loader is broken by this patch, > and user space application can't write to firmware bin file any more > because both firmware loader and drivers can't know at advance how > large the firmware file is and have to set its initialized size as > zero. > > This patch fixes the problem and keeps behaviour of writting to bin > as before. > > Reported-and-tested-by: Lothar Waßmann <LW@karo-electronics.de> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Oops, sorry about missing that.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks!
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