Re: [PATCH] powerpc/rtas_flash: New return code to indicate FW entitlement expiry

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 17:14 +0530, Vasant Hegde wrote:
> Add new return code to rtas_flash to indicate firmware entitlement
> expiry. This will be used by the update_flash script to return
> appropriate message to the user.

What's the point of that patch ? It adds a definition to a private .c
file not exposed to user space and doesn't do anything with it ...

Ben.

> Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
> index a7020d2..0a12c16 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
> @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
>  #define VALIDATE_TMP_COMMIT_DL 4     /* Validate Return Status */
>  #define VALIDATE_TMP_COMMIT    5     /* Validate Return Status */
>  #define VALIDATE_TMP_UPDATE_DL 6     /* Validate Return Status */
> +#define VALIDATE_OUT_OF_WRNTY  7     /* Validate Return Status */
>  
>  /* ibm,manage-flash-image operation tokens */
>  #define RTAS_REJECT_TMP_IMG   0