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SubjectRE: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name
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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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