linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware updating

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Message-ID: <20151003090539.GC11942@pd.tnic>
Date:	Sat, 3 Oct 2015 11:05:39 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@...el.com>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	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>,
	Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@...aro.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Fleming, Matt" <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware
 updating

On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 03:18:41AM +0000, Kweh, Hock Leong wrote:
> > What does the error case look like? A standard glibc message about
> > write(2) failing?
> > 
> 
> Any upload fail error like -ENOMEM, -EINVAL, -EIO as well as error returned
> by efi_capsule_update() API.

All I'm asking is, how does the user know that the upload didn't succeed?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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