Re: [patch 1/3] efivars driver update and move

From: Matt Tolentino
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 14:31:08 EST


>Patch below fixes three small bugs in efivars.c as posted by Matt
>Tolentino last week and included in the latest -mm. Aside from this
>small patch, I'm quite pleased with Matt T's work, thanks!=20
>
>* dummy() used for reading write-only sysfs files should return
> -ENODEV to indicate failure, not 0.
>* efivar_create() should return the number of bytes written on
> success, not zero. =20
>* efivar_delete() should return the number of bytes written on
> success, not zero.
>
>Compiled, tested with efibootmgr-0.5.0-test3. The anomolies I noted
>late Friday night are resolved by this kernel patch - efibootmgr was
>actually testing the values returned by writes.

Thanks for taking the time to look at this Matt...

matt

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