Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: guest-side retrieval of fw_cfg file

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 07/15/15 13:06, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 13:00 -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
>>
>> That being said, I did reimplement systemd's escape method in cca. 30
>> lines of C, so that shouldn't be too onerous.
> 
> I really don't see a reason to use systemd's naming scheme instead of
> the one already provided by the kernel.
> 
>> Besides, Laszlo said he liked a real folder hierarchy, and I do too,
>> so I'm still pondering how much doing that would complicate the module
>> init function. I'm somewhat worried about what the added complexity
>> will mean in terms of upstream acceptance in the linux kernel :)
> 
> Yeah, going that route will complicate the patch and you're going to get
> asked "Umm.. why?" by Greg Kroah-Hartman (definitely Cc Greg when
> sending this to the kernel mailing lists btw).
> 
> But if you can provide sound technical arguments for the added
> complexity I'm sure the kernel folks will be happy. Laszlo's argument
> makes sense to me, i.e. wanting to use standard utilities to know
> whether a blob is available.
> 
> Instead of rolling all this kobject-creation logic into your driver I'd
> suggest writing a patch to lib/kobject.c., since the problem sounds like
> something that should be solved with the kobject API.

Haha, this feature just got extended by six months. :)

> The question is, how simple can you make the code ;-)

The first question is how strong Gabriel's nerves are, but (from past
experience) they *are* strong. :)

Laszlo