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SubjectRE: [PATCH 06/12] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Add a sysfs interface for SMBIOS tokens
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Lutomirski [mailto:luto@kernel.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 3:49 PM
> To: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>; Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>; Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Cc: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com>; Pali Rohár
> <pali.rohar@gmail.com>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Platform Driver <platform-
> driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>; quasisec@google.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Add a sysfs interface
> for SMBIOS tokens
>
> On 09/27/2017 11:55 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 09:31:47PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:27 PM, <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>>> Darren, Andy, any comments? I'm not quite sure if such API is suitable
> >>>>>>> for long term in kernel.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I would try to avoid sysfs interfaces for some particular devices.
> >>>>>> Besides we are creating a character device. Would it be suitable there?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If the character device having 2 different ioctls for different needs is
> >>>>> acceptable I'm happy to adjust the series to do this instead.
> >>>>
> >>>> One piece of feedback I had re the char device was to see if we could avoid the
> >>>> need for the IOCTL altogether, I'd like to have that discussion before we add
> >>>> another.
> >>>
> >>> My original design was sysfs files for everything but it was raised by several
> folks
> >>> that you run into the potential of two userspace processes stomping on each
> >>> other's data when they run the ACPI call. That's why I need to have a mutex to
> >>> protect and make sure that userspace calls get the right results.
> >>>
> >>
> >>>>>>> Basically tokens are list of tuples <id, location, value> with
> >>>>>>> possibility to active them, right?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I didn't add a way to activate them through this, it was only for
> >>>>> reading purpose. Activating them should be possible through the
> >>>>> SMBIOS calling interface though.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> These are read-only as I understood it, and only with the right privileges.
> >>>> Sysfs seemed appropriate for this to me.
> >>>
> >>> Andy S was against having this data as another sysfs file. From a userspace
> >>> perspective I think it's simpler to just parse a sysfs file with read only static
> >>> data as root. With the current ioctl based solution it requires userspace to run
> >>> an ioctl to determine how many tokens exist, then allocate a chunk of memory
> >>> big enough to hold all the token data and then run another ioctl to get all the
> tokens.
> >>>
> >>> Andy S, given this change between v1 and v2 what do you feel is better?
> >>
> >> I have no strong opinion on this. That's why I recommended to listen to Andy L.
> >
> > +Andy Lutomirski
> >
> > Andy L, any preference on your part regarding exporting these tokens via sysfs
> > or through an additional IOCTL in the chardev?
> >
>
> Not really. If this is indeed static data that is potentially useful
> for scripts and such, than sysfs is kind of nice.

OK thanks. I'll switch back to sysfs for v3.
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