linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2/3] firmware_class: split out transaction helpers

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Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:47:27 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	"Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] firmware_class: split out transaction helpers

On Wed, 29 Apr, at 04:10:52PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@...n.com>
> 
> The firmware class contains code to manage an arbitrary sized buffer for
> discrete read and write operations.  We need precisely this ability to update
> firmware capsule files (and likely for other transactions as well), so split
> out the capability into a library helper
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@...n.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/firmware_class.c      | 117 ++++---------------------------
>  include/linux/transaction_helper.h |  26 +++++++
>  lib/Makefile                       |   2 +-
>  lib/transaction_helper.c           | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/transaction_helper.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/transaction_helper.c

(Sorry, I'm coming to this incredibly late)

This patch is pretty neat and I wish something like this had existed
when I originally wrote the EFI capsule patches.

James, do you have any plans to resubmit this as a non-RFC? If not, do
you mind if I pick this up and rebase my capsule patches ontop of it?

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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