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* [PATCH v3 0/3] Enable a capsule loader interface for user to update
@ 2015-04-10 19:40 Kweh, Hock Leong
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From: Kweh, Hock Leong @ 2015-04-10 19:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ming Lei, Matt Fleming, Greg Kroah-Hartman
  Cc: Ong Boon Leong, Kweh, Hock Leong, LKML,
	linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA, Sam Protsenko, Peter Jones,
	Andy Lutomirski, Roy Franz, Borislav Petkov

From: "Kweh, Hock Leong" <hock.leong.kweh-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

Hi Guys,

This patchset is created on top of "efi: Capsule update support" patch:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/4837

It expose a sysfs loader interface for user to upload the capsule binary
and calling efi_capsule_update() API to pass the binary to EFI firmware.

Thanks.

---
changelog v3:
* changes base on the design discussion in the mailing list:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/24/307
* 1st patch introduce a new API request_firmware_direct_full_path() in
  firmware_class for developer to pass in full path to the firmware file
* 2nd patch fix a bug for commit "firmware_loader: handle timeout via
  wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout()"
* 3rd patch introduce the capsule loader interface kernel module


Kweh, Hock Leong (3):
  firmware loader: introduce new API -
    request_firmware_direct_full_path()
  firmware_loader: fix positive return value being treat as error
    return
  efi: an sysfs interface for user to update efi firmware

 drivers/base/firmware_class.c             |   48 +++++++-
 drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig              |   12 ++
 drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile             |    1
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-capsule-loader.c |  169 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/firmware.h                  |    9 ++
 5 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-capsule-loader.c

-- 
1.7.9.5

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