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Couple of efivarfs fixes

Tony Luck linux-efi lkml 1 version Applied

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1/2efivarfs: Update inode modification time for successful writesfs/efivarfs/file.c+1 -00 replies
2/2efivarfs: Don't return -EINTR when rate-limiting readsfs/efivarfs/file.c+2 -40 replies

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Cover letter [PATCH 0/2] Couple of efivarfs fixes

1) Some apps want to monitor changes in EFI variables, but reading the file and comparing is inefficient. Just have Linnux update the modification time when a file is written

2) A rate limited read can return -EINTR ... very suprising to apps.

Tony Luck (2):
efivarfs: Update inode modification time for successful writes
efivarfs: Don't return -EINTR when rate-limiting reads

 fs/efivarfs/file.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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