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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 4/4] firmware: send -EINTR on signal abort on fallback mechanism
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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