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Subject: Re: [PATCH] efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware again
From: joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
To: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:36:37 +0800
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Hi Matt, 

於 一，2013-05-13 於 20:21 +0100，Matt Fleming 提到：
> On 05/10/2013 11:29 AM, Lingzhu Xiang wrote:
> > Previously in 1fa7e69 efi_status_to_err() translated firmware status
> > EFI_NOT_FOUND to -EIO instead of -ENOENT for efivarfs operations to
> > avoid confusion. After refactoring in e14ab23, it is also used in other
> > places where the translation may be unnecessary.
> > 
> > So move the translation to efivarfs specific code. Also return EOF
> > for reading zero-length files, which is what users would expect.
> > 
> > Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
> > Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
> > Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > This is to be applied against mainline or Matt Fleming's chainsaw branch.
> 
> Applied, thanks.
> 
> FYI, I rebased my 'urgent' branch on v3.10-rc1, so your patch now
> applies there too.
> 
> 

I found the "[PATCH] x86, efi: initial the local variable of DataSize to
zero" lost in urgent branch, and it also didn't in Linus's v3.10-rc1.

Did this patch move to other branch?


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee