Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2017 18:20:37 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] firmware: send -EINTR on signal abort on fallback mechanism |
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On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 06:04:33PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 04:00:07PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 01:51:51PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > Right now we send -EAGAIN to a syfs write which got interrupted. > > > Userspace can't tell what happened though, send -EINTR if we > > > were killed due to a signal so userspace can tell things apart. > > > > > > This is only applicable to the fallback mechanism. > > > > > > Reported-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@parkeon.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> > > > --- > > > drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 9 ++++++--- > > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > > > This doesn't need to go into 4.13-final, right? > > Nope. > > > Can it wait for 4.14-rc1? > > Yes. The bigger issue was the unexpected signals causing interruption. > This I consider a secondary and not critical issue so I did not Cc stable.
Ok, can you then take your two series of patches, and split them up into one for 4.13-final and one for 4.14-rc1 so that I know for sure which is which? As it is, I have to guess :(
thanks,
greg k-h
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