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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>, grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Add/use helper functions for finding UEFI config tables
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 19:38:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D5E197.3020809@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456854103-12095-1-git-send-email-leif.lindholm@linaro.org>

On 03/01/2016 06:41 PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> (Triggered by Alex's recent patches)
>
> There are a few places in the code manually iterating across the
> config tables provided through the UEFI system table. This set
> implements a common search function and converts some existing
> functions to use it.
>
> I have not yet converted commands/efi/loadbios.c given that it
> searches for multiple things in one go. Would be a trivial change.
>
> Also, for cleanliness of call-sites a better approach may be to macroize
> the function so that it was possible to simply go:
>    ptr = grub_efi_find_config_table(MY_VERY_SPECIAL_GUID);
> This was not my preference, since that hides the fact that the
> underlying datatype is a 128-bit struct.

Looks reasonable to me.

Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>


Alex



      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-01 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-01 17:41 [RFC 0/3] Add/use helper functions for finding UEFI config tables Leif Lindholm
2016-03-01 17:41 ` [RFC 1/3] efi: add configuration table search function Leif Lindholm
2016-03-01 20:08   ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-01 20:13     ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-01 20:28       ` Leif Lindholm
2016-03-10 20:05         ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-01 20:14     ` Leif Lindholm
2016-03-01 17:41 ` [RFC 2/3] arm64 linux loader: use grub_efi_find_config_table to find DT Leif Lindholm
2016-03-01 17:41 ` [RFC 3/3] acpi: use grub_efi_find_config_table to find tables Leif Lindholm
2016-03-01 18:38 ` Alexander Graf [this message]

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