Re: [RFC 1/3] sysfs,kernfs: add flush operation

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 30 2015 - 09:13:00 EST


On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 04:09:45PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxx>
>
> This is necessary to allow sysfs operations to return error in close (we are
> using close to initiate and return a possible error from a transaction).
>
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxx>

Are there any side-affects now that we have a flush() call for binary
files that the vfs will act differently from not defining one at all?

if not, no objection to me for this change.

thanks,

greg k-h
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