On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:38 PM Marvin Häuser <mhaeu...@posteo.de> wrote: > > > > On 17. Feb 2023, at 16:17, Ard Biesheuvel <a...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > So the FAT driver will happily load, but then fail in an obscure > > manner when being started on a controller handle, in a way that is > > indistinguishable (afict) from a partition that has not FAT file > > system in the first place. > > > > So it doesn't look fine to me at all, tbh. If the collation protocols > > are required, we should check for them in supported(), and make a lot > > of noise in a DEBUG build if the failure condition is an unexpected > > one, i.e., some additional protocol we dependent on (even though we > > pretend to be a UEFI driver) does not exist.
Hi Ard, Marvin, First of all, thank you for raising this issue and sending a patch. I had been quietly following the thread while trying to get my ideas straight. > > Right, I meant the approach to rely on the UEFI Driver Binding handling to > defer locating UC, not the exact implementation. Sounds good. > > @Pedro What do you think? > I think deferring the Unicode collation init to Start()/Supported() is a good idea. I believe there's good value in keeping Ext4Dxe a UEFI_DRIVER. I was trying to come up with reasons why this would not work (in a general UEFI-spec sense, not only in Tiano, but for instance if you would ever want to plug this into i.e u-boot's EFI implementation). As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be any? At least from a PI PoV things should only get Start()'d in BDS right? And since other PI-unaware implementations don't know what DXE or DXE_DRIVERs are, it's not like that would fix those use cases. > > > > Alternatively, we might defer installation of the driver binding > > protocol implementation to a callback on the collation protocol > > installation, but that seems like more work for the same result. > > Agreed. +1 -- Pedro -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#100326): https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/100326 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/97025926/21656 Group Owner: devel+ow...@edk2.groups.io Unsubscribe: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
