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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "David E. Box" <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>,
	hdegoede@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, srinivas.pandruvada@intel.com,
	mgross@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	Mark Gross <markgross@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 1/3] platform/x86: Add Intel Software Defined Silicon driver
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 02:14:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa16191c1241473fbfd55995bbba37bd2ab4a41c.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220204053046.2475671-2-david.e.box@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, 2022-02-03 at 21:30 -0800, David E. Box wrote:
> Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) is a post manufacturing mechanism for
> activating additional silicon features. Features are enabled through a
> license activation process.

Why isn't this a user process and not a kernel one?

> V5
>   - Update kernel version to 5.18 in API doc and copyrights to 2022.
>   - Remove unneeded prototypes.
>   - In binary attribute handlers where ret is only used for errors,
>     replace,
>               return (ret < 0) ? ret : size;
>     with,
>               return ret ?: size;

I think this style overly tricky.

Why not the canonical:

	if (ret < 0)
		return ret;

	return size;



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-04 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-04  5:30 [PATCH V5 0/3] Intel Software Defined Silicon David E. Box
2022-02-04  5:30 ` [PATCH V5 1/3] platform/x86: Add Intel Software Defined Silicon driver David E. Box
2022-02-04  6:57   ` Greg KH
2022-02-04 10:14   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2022-02-04 13:23     ` David E. Box
2022-02-04 13:43       ` Greg KH
2022-02-04 14:01       ` Joe Perches
2022-02-04 17:01         ` David E. Box
2022-02-04  5:30 ` [PATCH V5 2/3] tools arch x86: Add Intel SDSi provisiong tool David E. Box
2022-02-04  5:30 ` [PATCH V5 3/3] selftests: sdsi: test sysfs setup David E. Box

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