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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 11:05:39 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] Enable capsule loader interface for efi firmware
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On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 03:18:41AM +0000, Kweh, Hock Leong wrote:
> > What does the error case look like? A standard glibc message about
> > write(2) failing?
> > 
> 
> Any upload fail error like -ENOMEM, -EINVAL, -EIO as well as error returned
> by efi_capsule_update() API.

All I'm asking is, how does the user know that the upload didn't succeed?

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    Boris.

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