Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751485AbbD3NM6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:12:58 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:41956 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751193AbbD3NM4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:12:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:11:59 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: James Bottomley Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, "Kweh, Hock Leong" , LKML , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Jones Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] sysfs,kernfs: add flush operation Message-ID: <20150430131159.GC17936@kroah.com> References: <1430348859.2189.37.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1430348985.2189.39.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1430348985.2189.39.camel@HansenPartnership.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 21 On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 04:09:45PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > From: James Bottomley > > This is necessary to allow sysfs operations to return error in close (we are > using close to initiate and return a possible error from a transaction). > > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley Are there any side-affects now that we have a flush() call for binary files that the vfs will act differently from not defining one at all? if not, no objection to me for this change. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/