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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDD: Check for correct EDD 3.0 length
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:53:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120515125356.GM32036@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120515115917.GK32036@redhat.com>

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:59:17PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > So why do you claim we can't display it anymore?
> > 
> Before commit 0c61227094b3ddaca2f847ee287c4a2e3762b5a2 the code didn't
> calculate checksum correctly. The check always succeed, so when bios
> provided information according to T13 EDD4.0 spec interface_type contained
Correction. If BIOS provided information _not_ according to T13 EDD4.0 spec
interface_type contained garbage since the reset of the code assumes the
EDD4.0 information.

Looked like that:
# cat /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/interface 
SCSI            id: 0  lun: 1224979098644774912

> garbage. After the commit checksum is calculated correctly, but according
> to T13 EDD4.0 spec, so for BIOSes that supply info according to another
> spec check fails. Since T13 EDD4.0 spec support modern interfaces (RAID,
> SATA, SAS) which another spec omits, and for interfaces they both support
> T13 EDD4.0 actually supply enough information to link edd entry to actual
> device (another spec does not), I do not see support for other spec to
> be important, but you are welcome to write support for it if you need
> it. The only way I see to check what spec edd info corresponds to is to
> calculate checksum according to both specs and see which one succeeds.
> 
> --
> 			Gleb.
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			Gleb.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-15 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-15 11:04 [PATCH] EDD: Check for correct EDD 3.0 length Hannes Reinecke
2012-05-15 11:12 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 11:20   ` Hannes Reinecke
2012-05-15 11:59     ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 12:53       ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2012-05-15 13:49       ` Alan Cox
2012-05-15 14:12         ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 14:18           ` Alan Cox
2012-05-15 14:21             ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 14:36               ` Alan Cox
2012-05-15 14:48                 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 14:54                   ` Alan Cox
2012-05-15 15:00                     ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 14:00       ` Alan Cox
2012-05-15 14:36         ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 14:52           ` Alan Cox
2012-05-15 14:53             ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 15:22               ` Alan Cox
2012-05-15 15:29                 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 15:41                   ` Alan Cox
2012-05-15 15:53                     ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 15:14           ` Alan Cox
2012-05-15 15:31             ` Alan Cox
2012-05-15 15:46             ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-15 17:17               ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-16  6:51 Hannes Reinecke
2012-05-16  8:28 ` Gleb Natapov

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