Re: [RFC 2/3] firmware_class: split out transaction helpers

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 15:47 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr, at 04:10:52PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
> > 
> > The firmware class contains code to manage an arbitrary sized buffer for
> > discrete read and write operations.  We need precisely this ability to update
> > firmware capsule files (and likely for other transactions as well), so split
> > out the capability into a library helper
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/firmware_class.c      | 117 ++++---------------------------
> >  include/linux/transaction_helper.h |  26 +++++++
> >  lib/Makefile                       |   2 +-
> >  lib/transaction_helper.c           | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 include/linux/transaction_helper.h
> >  create mode 100644 lib/transaction_helper.c
> 
> (Sorry, I'm coming to this incredibly late)
> 
> This patch is pretty neat and I wish something like this had existed
> when I originally wrote the EFI capsule patches.
> 
> James, do you have any plans to resubmit this as a non-RFC? If not, do
> you mind if I pick this up and rebase my capsule patches ontop of it?

Sort of, but I was stalled trying to work out how to combine with your
capsule patches.  If you're going to do that work, I can resubmit my
stuff as a patch with all the changes based on the review comments and
then you can do the real work ...

James