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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Matt Fleming <matt-HNK1S37rvNbeXh+fF434Mdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett
	<matthew.garrett-05XSO3Yj/JvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>,
	"linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org"
	<linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: EFI: Stash ROMs if they're not in the PCI BAR
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:09:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130320090957.GA9189@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514976F3.2-HNK1S37rvNbeXh+fF434Mdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:44:35AM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On 03/18/2013 04:02 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 11:36 +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 08:57 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >>> True. It probably doesn't *matter* because the size is zero so the
> >>> firmware is just going to ignore the pointer anyway. Although in that
> >>> case I wonder why we couldn't have just passed NULL. Perhaps we expected
> >>> that some firmware might do some validation on the pointer before
> >>> getting to the size check?
> >>
> >> I doubt that the firmware checks the validity of pci_handle when size is
> >> zero, and I agree it's worth passing NULL to silence the warning (which
> >> is also more explicit that just initialising pci_handle), unless Matthew
> >> knows of a reason we shouldn't do that?
> > 
> > No reason I can think of, and any failure will be pretty immediately
> > obvious.
> 
> Anyone want to submit a patch?
> 

Sure.  I'll send one tomorrow.

regards,
dan carpenter

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-15  8:29 EFI: Stash ROMs if they're not in the PCI BAR Dan Carpenter
     [not found] ` <20130315082928.GA14520-dZEljifmRObu9KfB+GxooP8+0UxHXcjY@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-15  8:57   ` David Woodhouse
     [not found]     ` <1363337872.2444.9.camel-Fexsq3y4057IgHVZqg5X0TlWvGAXklZc@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-18 11:36       ` Matt Fleming
     [not found]         ` <1363606563.15011.333.camel-ZqTwcBeJ+wsBof6jY8KHXm7IUlhRatedral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-18 16:02           ` Matthew Garrett
     [not found]             ` <1363622520.2553.8.camel-tCUS0Eywp2Pehftex57rkxo58HMYffqeLoYNBG0abjxeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-20  8:44               ` Matt Fleming
     [not found]                 ` <514976F3.2-HNK1S37rvNbeXh+fF434Mdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-20  9:09                   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2013-03-20  9:27               ` David Woodhouse

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