linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name

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Date:	Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:12:52 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc:	H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Asit K Mallick <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name

On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> Given a file's name, find its starting point in a cpio formated area. This will
> be used to find microcode in combined initrd image. But this function is
> generic and could be used in other places.

Shouldn't this (very useful) feature get its own documentation in
Documentation/ ?

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  Henrique Holschuh
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