On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 15:47 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr, at 04:10:52PM, James Bottomley wrote: > > From: James Bottomley <[email protected]> > > > > The firmware class contains code to manage an arbitrary sized buffer for > > discrete read and write operations. We need precisely this ability to > > update > > firmware capsule files (and likely for other transactions as well), so split > > out the capability into a library helper > > > > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]> > > --- > > drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 117 ++++--------------------------- > > include/linux/transaction_helper.h | 26 +++++++ > > lib/Makefile | 2 +- > > lib/transaction_helper.c | 137 > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 4 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-) > > create mode 100644 include/linux/transaction_helper.h > > create mode 100644 lib/transaction_helper.c > > (Sorry, I'm coming to this incredibly late) > > This patch is pretty neat and I wish something like this had existed > when I originally wrote the EFI capsule patches. > > James, do you have any plans to resubmit this as a non-RFC? If not, do > you mind if I pick this up and rebase my capsule patches ontop of it?
Sort of, but I was stalled trying to work out how to combine with your capsule patches. If you're going to do that work, I can resubmit my stuff as a patch with all the changes based on the review comments and then you can do the real work ... James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
