linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: export x86_64 platform flash bios region via sysfs

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Date:   Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:04:21 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Hans-Gert Dahmen <hans-gert.dahmen@...u.ne>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Philipp Deppenwiese <philipp.deppenwiese@...u.ne>,
        Mauro Lima <mauro.lima@...ypsium.com>,
        Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>,
        "platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org" 
        <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: export x86_64 platform flash bios region via sysfs

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 10:37 AM Hans-Gert Dahmen
<hans-gert.dahmen@...u.ne> wrote:
> Am Mi., 10. Nov. 2021 um 07:35 Uhr schrieb Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>:
> > On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, Hans-Gert Dahmen <hans-gert.dahmen@...u.ne> wrote:
> >> Am Di., 9. Nov. 2021 um 13:42 Uhr schrieb Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>:

> >> > Do you have a pointer to these complex and buggy drivers anywhere?
> >>
> >> I am talking about the linux-mtd intel-spi driver for example, but I
> >> feel that this gets the discussion in the wrong direction.
> >
> > This is the driver that covers all BIOSes on modern x86\64. What’s wrong with it? Why do you need this?!
> >
> > If it’s buggy, where is the bug reports from you or somebody else?
>
> Please see Mauro's mail in this thread from yesterday below:

I didn't get this. What's wrong with the response from the author of
intel-spi (since we are speaking about it, let me add him to the
thread)?
What you are trying to do is to sneak around with ugly hack behind the
proper subsystem's back.

NAK as I already said.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko