Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] efi: Enable booting unified hypervisor/kernel/initrd images

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>]

On 17.09.2020 15:33, Trammell Hudson wrote:
> On Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:04 AM, Trammell Hudson <hudson@trmm.net> wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 17, 2020 8:33 AM, Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> -   if ( read_section(image, ".ucode", &ucode, NULL) )
>>>> -            return;
>>>>
>>>> -   name.s = get_value(&cfg, section, "ucode");
>>>
>>> With the Arm change already in mind and with further similar
>>> changes further down, may I suggest to consider passing
>>> 'section' into read_section(), thus guaranteeing consistent
>>> naming between image section and config file items, not only now
>>> but also going forward? read_section() would then check for the
>>> leading dot followed by the specified name.
>>
>> That could work, I think. Let me test it out for v5.
> 
> Or maybe not. section is the "section-name" of the config file
> that is being booted:
> 
> [global]
> default=section-name
> 
> Meanwhile, read_section() wants the PE section name, like ".ucode", which might appear as a line item in that section.

Oh, yes - looking at just the code fragment left in context I
realize my comment was just rubbish. Sorry.

Jan