linux-kernel - Re: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface

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Message-ID: <20150302112420.GA24476@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:24:20 +0000
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	"Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@...el.com>,
	Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@...aro.org>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Ong, Boon Leong" <boon.leong.ong@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface

On Thu, 26 Feb, at 04:54:58PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 07:30:54AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > How can the error code be propagated?  Would that echo command fail in
> > case of error?
> 
> Yeah, either that or we can put the error code in the sysfs file which
> userspace can cat.

FWIW, I'd prefer to make the echo command fail in case of capsule error.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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