Re: [PATCH v7 10/22] x86/virt/seamldr: Abort updates if errors occurred midway

[Edgecombe, Rick P]

On Wed, 2026-04-15 at 10:59 +0800, Chao Gao wrote:
> > If it's non-required for "turning the lights on" it seems aligned
> > with Dave's
> > suggestion you highlighted to drop it from the series.
> 
> It is required for the shutdown case. Without early abort, a shutdown
> failure (recoverable) proceeds to seamldr.install, escalating it to a
> destructive failure. The race handling between TD build and updates
> depends on shutdown failures being non-destructive so users can
> retry.

Then what is the level of support of this series intends to achieve?
There is a lot of discussion about how the admin needs to make sure to
not screw things up. What is the level of screw up that is handled by
the kernel? We should spell this out in the cover letter or something.