Re: [Patch v3] firmware: dmi-sysfs: add SMBIOS entry point area raw attribute

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On 02/03/2015 12:49 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan, at 05:56:25PM, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c
index e0f1cb3..61b6a38 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
  #define MAX_ENTRY_TYPE 255 /* Most of these aren't used, but we consider
  			      the top entry type is only 8 bits */
+static const u8 *smbios_raw_header;
There appears to be a mixture of u8 and unsigned char going on here, cf.
'smbios_header'.

While I'm pretty sure all architectures typedef them to be equivalent,
semantically, as a reviewer this makes me think there are type issues.

Is there any way to use one data type for the SMBIOS header?

Let it be u8 in both cases.

@@ -669,6 +699,18 @@ static int __init dmi_sysfs_init(void)
  		goto err;
  	}
+	smbios_raw_header = dmi_get_smbios_entry_area(&size);
+	if (!smbios_raw_header) {
+		pr_debug("dmi-sysfs: SMBIOS raw data is not available.\n");
+		error = -ENODATA;
+		goto err;
Perhaps this should be -EINVAL? -ENODATA implies that if you try again
in the future data might be available, i.e. it's a temporary failure.
That's not the case here since the header is invalid.


Yes, -EINVAL is better.
I'll send new patch soon.
Thanks!
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