Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] firmware loader: Introduce new API - request_firmware_abort()

2014-11-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 03 Nov 2014, Kweh Hock Leong wrote: Note for people who use request_firmware_nowait(): You are required to do your own synchronization after you call request_firmware_abort() in order to continue unloading the module. The example synchronization code shows below: while (THIS_MODULE

Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] firmware loader: Introduce new API - request_firmware_abort()

2014-11-03 Thread Matt Fleming
On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 08:15 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 03 Nov 2014, Kweh Hock Leong wrote: Note for people who use request_firmware_nowait(): You are required to do your own synchronization after you call request_firmware_abort() in order to continue unloading the

Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update

2014-11-03 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On 11/02/2014 07:07 PM, Kweh Hock Leong wrote: From: Kweh, Hock Leong hock.leong.kweh-ral2jqcrhueavxtiumw...@public.gmane.org Hi Guys, This patchset is created on top of efi: Capsule update support patch: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/4837 It leverages the

Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update

2014-11-03 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:33:23AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: On 11/02/2014 07:07 PM, Kweh Hock Leong wrote: From: Kweh, Hock Leong hock.leong.kweh-ral2jqcrhueavxtiumw...@public.gmane.org Hi Guys, This patchset is created on top of efi: Capsule update support patch:

Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update

2014-11-03 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:33:23AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: On 11/02/2014 07:07 PM, Kweh Hock Leong wrote: From: Kweh, Hock Leong hock.leong.kweh-ral2jqcrhueavxtiumw...@public.gmane.org Hi Guys,

Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update

2014-11-03 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 01:32:46PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:33:23AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: On 11/02/2014 07:07 PM, Kweh Hock Leong wrote: From: Kweh, Hock Leong

Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update

2014-11-03 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:08:08PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 01:32:46PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman

Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update

2014-11-03 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 03:08:08PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 01:32:46PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski

Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface

2014-11-03 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:07:10AM +0800, Kweh Hock Leong wrote: From: Kweh, Hock Leong hock.leong.k...@intel.com Introducing a kernel module to expose user helper interface for user to upload capsule binaries. This module leverage the request_firmware_nowait() to expose an interface to

Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface

2014-11-03 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:07:10AM +0800, Kweh Hock Leong wrote: From: Kweh, Hock Leong hock.leong.k...@intel.com Introducing a kernel module to expose user helper interface for user to upload capsule

RE: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface

2014-11-03 Thread Kweh, Hock Leong
-Original Message- From: Andy Lutomirski [mailto:l...@amacapital.net] Andy, here's the steps to load a capsule. I don't have a problem with this, it's userspace driven, no autoloading of files in /lib/, and works with sysfs. Have any objection to it, I don't. Thanks Greg

Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Capsule update with user helper interface

2014-11-03 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Kweh, Hock Leong hock.leong.k...@intel.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Andy Lutomirski [mailto:l...@amacapital.net] Andy, here's the steps to load a capsule. I don't have a problem with this, it's userspace driven, no autoloading of files in