linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/16] Fix types in EFI calls to match EFI function definitions.

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Date:	Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:14:22 +0100
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
Cc:	matt.fleming@...el.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>,
	Dave Martin <dave.martin@....com>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/16] Fix types in EFI calls to match EFI function definitions.

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca> wrote:
>> I think you need some description in the commit text about why the type
>> of chunksize is changing. It's not clear why you're making this change.
>> It is a bug fix?
>
> The type was changed to match the EFI_FILE_PROTOCOL specification -
> chunk size is
> defined as a native width unsigned integer.  So yes, this is a bug in
> that this is wrong for
> ia32, since that really should be a u32 in that case.
> Since the x86 wrappers break type checking by the compiler these types
> were never checked at compile time
> before.  chunksize is the the only change that isn't a cast to a type
> of void pointer.
>
> I can break this change out as a separate patch if desired.

I don't think it needs to be in a separate patch, but it does need to
be described in the patch description.

g.
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