Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] firmware: send -EINTR on signal abort on fallback mechanism

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 01:51:51PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Right now we send -EAGAIN to a syfs write which got interrupted.
> Userspace can't tell what happened though, send -EINTR if we
> were killed due to a signal so userspace can tell things apart.
> 
> This is only applicable to the fallback mechanism.
> 
> Reported-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

This doesn't need to go into 4.13-final, right?  Can it wait for
4.14-rc1?

thanks,

greg k-h