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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] ibft: For UEFI machines actually do scan ACPI for iBFT.
On Fri,  9 Apr 2010 14:21:28 +0000
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org> wrote:

> For machines with IBFT 1.03 do scan the ACPI table for 'iBFT'
> or for 'IBFT'. If the machine is in UEFI mode, only do the ACPI
> table scan. For all other machines (pre IBFT 1.03) do
> a memory scan if not found in the ACPI tables.
>
> Author: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>

The Author: line is unneeded and inappropriate here. That's what the
From: line does.

> Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>

Your covering email indicates that Mike and Peter wrote the patches,
but neither of the patches have their signoffs. Can we please sort all
this out?


> ---
> drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------
> 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c b/drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c
> index 8f4d157..0bc3fae 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c
> @@ -56,23 +56,12 @@ static int __init acpi_find_ibft(struct acpi_table_header *header)
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_ACPI */
>
> -/*
> - * Routine used to find the iSCSI Boot Format Table. The logical
> - * kernel address is set in the ibft_addr global variable.
> - */
> -unsigned long __init find_ibft_region(unsigned long *sizep)
> +static int __init find_ibft_mem_scan(void)

The name seems weird. find_foo_scan(). So we're trying to find a scan
for a foo.

> {
> unsigned long pos;
> unsigned int len = 0;
> void *virt;
>
> - ibft_addr = NULL;
> -
> - /* iBFT 1.03 section 1.4.3.1 mandates that UEFI machines will
> - * only use ACPI for this */
> - if (efi_enabled)
> - return 0;
> -
> for (pos = IBFT_START; pos < IBFT_END; pos += 16) {
> /* The table can't be inside the VGA BIOS reserved space,
> * so skip that area */
>
> ...
>


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