On 02/02/2016 12:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
On Feb 2, 2016 5:37 AM, "Corey Minyard" <miny...@acm.org> wrote:
On 02/01/2016 03:25 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
Hi Corey,

I won't comment on the IPMI side of this as this isn't my area. However
I have a comment on the DMI part:

Le Friday 29 January 2016 à 16:43 -0600, miny...@acm.org a écrit :
From: Corey Minyard <cminy...@mvista.com>

This is so that an IPMI platform device can be created from a
DMI firmware entry.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminy...@mvista.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
---
   drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
   include/linux/dmi.h         | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
   include/linux/fwnode.h      |  1 +
   3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index da471b2..13d9bca 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ static struct dmi_memdev_info {
   } *dmi_memdev;
   static int dmi_memdev_nr;
   +static void *dmi_zalloc(unsigned len)
+{
+       void *ret = dmi_alloc(len);
+
+       if (ret)
+               memset(ret, 0, len);
+
+       return ret;
+}
+
   static const char * __init dmi_string_nosave(const struct dmi_header *dm, u8 
s)
   {
         const u8 *bp = ((u8 *) dm) + dm->length;
@@ -242,6 +252,12 @@ static void __init dmi_save_type(const struct dmi_header 
*dm, int slot,
(...)
@@ -250,15 +266,14 @@ static void __init dmi_save_one_device(int type, const 
char *name)
         if (dmi_find_device(type, name, NULL))
                 return;
   -     dev = dmi_alloc(sizeof(*dev) + strlen(name) + 1);
+       dev = dmi_zalloc(sizeof(*dev) + strlen(name) + 1);
         if (!dev)
                 return;
         dev->type = type;
         strcpy((char *)(dev + 1), name);
         dev->name = (char *)(dev + 1);
-       dev->device_data = NULL;
This change seems rather unrelated, and I'm not sure what purpose it
serves. On ia64 and arm64 it is clearly redundant as dmi_alloc calls
kzalloc directly. On x86_64, extend_brk is called instead (don't ask me
why, I have no clue) but looking at the code I see that it does
memset(ret, 0, size) as well so memory is also zeroed there. Which makes
dmi_alloc the same as dmi_zalloc on all 3 architectures.

So please revert this change. This will make your patch easier to
review, too.

Ok.  I had assumed extend_break wasn't zeroing since there were all the NULL 
assignments,
I should have looked.

I was thinking about this, and the fwnode could just be added to the IPMI 
device.  I'm not
sure if you would prefer that over adding it to dmi_device.  The fwnode is in 
acpi_device,
and I was modelling these changes after that, but maybe that's not required 
here.
I think dmi_device is right, especially if your patches result in a
firmware_node sysfs link being created.  That way the link will point
to the right place.

Yeah, that's the conclusion I had come to, I think. It doesn't currently add the
firmware_node to sysfs, but that's easily added and probably a next logical
step.

I'll have a new set of patches out today after I compile test at each step.

Thanks,

-corey

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