linux-kernel - Re: FW: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:04:17 +0100
From:	Sytse Wielinga <s.b.wielinga@...dent.utwente.nl>
To:	Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@....com>
Cc:	Matt_Domsch@...l.com,
	Jos?? Luis Tall??n <jltallon@...-solutions.net>,
	Douglas_Warzecha@...l.com, Abhay_Salunke@...l.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown@...l.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Subject: Re: FW: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:59:44PM +0100, Markus Rechberger wrote:
(quote reformatted)
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:44:15PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:32:44AM -0600, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > > BIOS updates are broken on all Dell systems due to Commit
> > > 109f0e93b6b728f03c1eb4af02bc25d71b646c59, which is now in 2.6.24.
> > > 
> > >   static inline void fw_setup_device_id(struct device *f_dev, struct
> > > device *dev)
> > >   {
> > > -       /* XXX warning we should watch out for name collisions */
> > > -       strlcpy(f_dev->bus_id, dev->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE);
> > > +       snprintf(f_dev->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "firmware-%s",
> > > dev->bus_id);
> > >  }
> > > 
> > > Two programs are broken by this change: 
> > >     1) dellBiosUpdate, which is part of libsmbios
> > >     2) All of the Dell Update Packages (DUPs) that are part of Dell
> > > OpenManage: each BIOS release for each of 3-4 dozen platforms.
> > > 
> > > These programs are broken due to the pathname change from
> > > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/   to
> > > /sys/class/firmware/firmware-dell_rbu/loading. 
> > > 
> > > Realistically, I can fix libsmbios in a couple of weeks, but there is no
> > > way that we can go back and fix a couple hundred DUP packages for this
> > > change. If this stays, we are looking at over 6 months before we have an
> > > officially-available Dell OpenManage that can deal with it, and that
> > > would be for new BIOS releases only, I suspect.
> > > 
> > > Some of the relevant threads from when this was submitted and accepted:
> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/23/73
> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/23/62
> > > 
> > > Due to the extremely large and disruptive nature of this bug, it would
> > > be nice to get a 2.6.24.1 with this patch reverted.
> > > 
> > > I have copied the relevant developers at Dell who maintain this driver.
> > > Please preserve the cc: list when replying.
> > 
> > Fair enough, I have no problem reverting this.
> > 
> > Anyone want to keep it in?
>
> Hi Greg,
> 
> reverting this breaks support for several media (DVB/V4L) devices. I 
> would have to look up some bugreports the same name collision happened 
> with several different drivers.
> There was a comment in the fw code to watch out for name collisions 
> earlier already, so it needs a fix somewhere.
> 
> Here's some history:
> http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php5/Bugtracker#i2c_dev_problem

What about creating symlinks with the old device names? That shouldn't give
rise to any collisions, as it only works in the /sys/class/firmware/ namespace
(correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't actually taken the time to investigate the
problem properly and have no experience with the firmware driver).

I've created the simple patch below. I have no idea if it actually works,
though, as I don't appear to have any hardware for which a linux driver
supports firmware loading. Please comment.

Oh, and I almost forgot to ask about __FUNCTION__, which is gcc-specific;
wouldn't it be a good idea to simply replace all occurrences in the kernel
source with __func__?

Sytse

---
 drivers/base/Kconfig          |   11 +++++++++++
 drivers/base/firmware_class.c |    7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index d7da109..d0a9cf6 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -34,6 +34,17 @@ config FW_LOADER
 	  require userspace firmware loading support, but a module built outside
 	  the kernel tree does.
 
+config FW_LOADER_SYSFS_COMPAT
+	bool "Deprecated /sys/class/firmware/ folders"
+	depends on FW_LOADER
+	default y
+	help
+	  Folders in /sys/class/firmware/ have been prefixed with 'firmware-'
+	  to prevent name collisions. Enable this option to create symlinks
+	  for backward compatibility.
+
+	  If unsure, say Y.
+
 config DEBUG_DRIVER
 	bool "Driver Core verbose debug messages"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 0295855..f8aba6c 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -330,6 +330,13 @@ static int fw_register_device(struct device **dev_p, const char *fw_name,
 		       __FUNCTION__);
 		goto error_kfree;
 	}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_SYSFS_COMPAT
+	if (sysfs_create_link(&firmware_class.subsys.kobj, &f_dev->kobj, device->bus_id))
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: sysfs_create_link failed for %s\n",
+			   __FUNCTION__, device->bus_id);
+#endif
+
 	*dev_p = f_dev;
 	return 0;
 
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