On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 6:21 PM, James Bottomley <james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com> wrote: > Andy, just on the misc device idea, what about triggering the capsule > update from close()? In theory close returns an error code (not sure if > most tools actually check this, though). That means we can do the write > in chunks but pass it in atomically on the close and cat will work > (provided it checks the return code of close).
I thought about this but IIRC cat doesn't check the return value from close. --Andy > > James > > -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
