Re: [PATCH] acpi: add support for the NBFT

[John Meneghini <jmeneghi@redhat.com>]

Thank Rafael.

To clarify: this patch was developed by Stuart Hayes. So there should be no need for that additional Signed-off-bys.

Sorry for the confusion...

John A. Meneghini
Senior Principal Platform Storage Engineer
RHEL SST - Platform Storage Group
jmeneghi@redhat.com

On 12/30/22 12:45, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 12:25 AM Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Add support for the NVMe Boot Firmware Table (NBFT) to facilitate
>> booting from NVM Express namespaces which are accessed via
>> NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
> 
> Tentatively applied as 6.3 material, but it was unclear what the S-o-b
> tags below mean, so I've dropped them.
> 
> If you are not the original author of the patch, you should add a From
> line pointing to the original author to it and the corresponding S-o-b
> tag along with your S-o-b.
> 
> If you have developed the patch in collaboration with someone, there
> should be a Co-developed-by tag pointing to the other author along
> with the corresponding S-o-b tag.
> 
> S-o-b alone is meaningful only if you are sending a patch from someone
> else, for example as a code maintainer.
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Doug Farley <Douglas_Farley@dell.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Lenny Szubowicz <lszubowi@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/acpi/tables.c | 3 ++-
>>   include/acpi/actbl1.h | 2 ++
>>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
>> index 47ec11d4c68e..f390c5883b56 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
>> @@ -545,7 +545,8 @@ static const char table_sigs[][ACPI_NAMESEG_SIZE] __initconst = {
>>          ACPI_SIG_WDDT, ACPI_SIG_WDRT, ACPI_SIG_DSDT, ACPI_SIG_FADT,
>>          ACPI_SIG_PSDT, ACPI_SIG_RSDT, ACPI_SIG_XSDT, ACPI_SIG_SSDT,
>>          ACPI_SIG_IORT, ACPI_SIG_NFIT, ACPI_SIG_HMAT, ACPI_SIG_PPTT,
>> -       ACPI_SIG_NHLT, ACPI_SIG_AEST, ACPI_SIG_CEDT, ACPI_SIG_AGDI };
>> +       ACPI_SIG_NHLT, ACPI_SIG_AEST, ACPI_SIG_CEDT, ACPI_SIG_AGDI,
>> +       ACPI_SIG_NBFT };
>>
>>   #define ACPI_HEADER_SIZE sizeof(struct acpi_table_header)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/acpi/actbl1.h b/include/acpi/actbl1.h
>> index 15c78678c5d3..6ec43410288a 100644
>> --- a/include/acpi/actbl1.h
>> +++ b/include/acpi/actbl1.h
>> @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
>>   #define ACPI_SIG_S3PT           "S3PT" /* S3 Performance (sub)Table */
>>   #define ACPI_SIG_PCCS           "PCC"  /* PCC Shared Memory Region */
>>
>> +#define ACPI_SIG_NBFT          "NBFT"  /* NVMe Boot Firmware Table */
>> +
>>   /* Reserved table signatures */
>>
>>   #define ACPI_SIG_MATR           "MATR" /* Memory Address Translation Table */
>> --
>> 2.31.1
>>
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