linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] firmware_loader: introduce new API

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Message-ID: <20150414161833.GE14069@pd.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:18:33 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh@...el.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Ong Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@...aro.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] firmware_loader: introduce new API -
 request_firmware_direct_full_path()

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:56:26AM -0400, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This is why I think that the right approach would be to avoid using
> firmware_class entirely for this.  IMO a simple_char device would be
> the way to go (hint hint...) but other simple approaches are certainly
> possible.

Btw, didn't mfleming want to try using capsules for other funky stuff
like early logging and pstore-like logging in panic time so that we can
read out crash data on the next boot?

Which would mean that capsules would need a completely different
interface, something new for shuffling lotsa binary data in and out of
the kernel and in and out of the UEFI...

Which would make the firmware_class thing completely inappropriate for
that.

Hmmm?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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