Re: [PATCH] efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware again

[Matt Fleming]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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.

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