Re: [ndctl PATCH] ndctl, firmware-update: kill usage of flock() in verify_fw_file()
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:59:27PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
It serves no purpose, we never explicitly unlock it, and it causes
needless failures if the firmware file happens to be on a filesystem
that does not support file locks.
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang(a)intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams(a)intel.com>
Yay, I was hitting this as well in my setup which uses NFS, but wasn't sure if
the flock was necessary.
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler(a)linux.intel.com>