From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/rtas_flash: New return code to indicate FW entitlement expiry
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:35:40 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130423050540.GA30690@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366677610.2886.8.camel@pasglop>
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:40:10AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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,
The userspace update_flash script invokes the rtas_flash module. With
upcoming System p servers, the firmware will have the entitlement dates
encoded in it and RTAS will return an error if the entitlement has
expired. All we need from this module is for it to return that new error
which will then be communicated to the user by the update_flash.
Ananth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-23 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-19 11:44 [PATCH] powerpc/rtas_flash: New return code to indicate FW entitlement expiry Vasant Hegde
2013-04-23 0:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-04-23 5:05 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [this message]
2013-04-23 5:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-04-23 5:47 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2013-04-23 5:29 ` Vasant Hegde
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