Messages in this thread | | | From | "Yu, Fenghua" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name | Date | Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:23:08 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [mailto:hmh@hmh.eng.br] > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 3:13 PM > To: Yu, Fenghua > Cc: H Peter Anvin; Ingo Molnar; Thomas Gleixner; Mallick, Asit K; > Tigran Aivazian; Andreas Herrmann; Borislav Petkov; linux-kernel; x86 > Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file > name > > On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > Given a file's name, find its starting point in a cpio formated area. > This will > > be used to find microcode in combined initrd image. But this function > is > > generic and could be used in other places. > > Shouldn't this (very useful) feature get its own documentation in > Documentation/ ?
Yes, I can document the feature. And if it's generic and useful, this function could be put in generic kernel instead of in x86 arch.
Thanks.
-Fenghua
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