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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] device property: Get rid of union aliasing
On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 04:15:47PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/apple-properties.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/apple-properties.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
> *
> * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> + *
> + * FIXME: The approach is still based on union aliasing and should be
> + * replaced by a proper resource provider.

Why? All Apple EFI properties are either boolean or u8 arrays.
You've correctly changed this file to always supply u8 arrays,
so I don't see where union aliasing is happening here?

Thanks,

Lukas

> */
>
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) "apple-properties: " fmt
> @@ -96,12 +99,13 @@ static void __init unmarshal_key_value_pairs(struct dev_header *dev_header,
> entry[i].name = key;
> entry[i].length = val_len - sizeof(val_len);
> entry[i].is_array = !!entry[i].length;
> - entry[i].pointer.raw_data = ptr + key_len + sizeof(val_len);
> + entry[i].type = DEV_PROP_U8;
> + entry[i].pointer.u8_data = ptr + key_len + sizeof(val_len);
>
> if (dump_properties) {
> dev_info(dev, "property: %s\n", entry[i].name);
> print_hex_dump(KERN_INFO, pr_fmt(), DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET,
> - 16, 1, entry[i].pointer.raw_data,
> + 16, 1, entry[i].pointer.u8_data,
> entry[i].length, true);
> }
>

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