On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:35 PM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 11:23 +0000, Kweh, Hock Leong wrote: >> I agree with James. Due to different people may have different needs. But >> from our side, we would just like to have a simple interface for us to upload >> the efi capsule and perform update. We do not have any use case or need >> to get info from QueryCapsuleUpdate(). Let me give a suggestion here: >> please allow me to focus on deliver this simple loading interface and >> upstream it. Then later whoever has the actual use case or needs on the ioctl >> implementation, he or she could enhance base on this simple loading interface. >> What do you guys think? >> >> Let me summarize the latest design idea: >> - No longer leverage on firmware class but use misc device >> - Do not use platform device but use device_create() >> - User just need to perform "cat file.bin > /sys/.../capsule_loader" in the shell >> - File operation functions include: open(), read(), write() and flush() >> - Perform mutex lock in open() then release the mutex in flush() for avoiding >> race condition / concurrent loading >> - Perform the capsule update and error return at flush() function >> >> Is there anything I missed? Any one still have concern with this idea? >> Thanks for providing the ideas as well as the review. > > I think that's pretty much it. > > Why don't you let me construct a straw man patch. It's going to be a > bit controversial because it involves adding flush operations to sysfs > and kernfs, slicing apart firmware_class.c to extract the transaction > handling stuff and creating an new efi update capsule file which makes > use of it. > > Once we have code, we at least have something more concrete to argue > over. Would it be worth checking whether busybox is also okay with it first? (Sorry to be a naysayer.) It would be a shame if we do all this to keep the userspace footprint light and then it doesn't work for non-coreutils userspace. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
