Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:26:14 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] firmware: Add boot information to sysfs |
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 11:05:46AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 8:46 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 05:52:32PM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote: > > > +What: /sys/firmware/bootinfo/* > > > +Date: Jan 2022 > > > > It isn't January anymore :) > > The patch was sent on Feb 4, I would expect that to be close enough. Does this > need to be the month of the kernel release it is merged into instead?
That's usually best, but at least the month the patch was sent in is good.
Also I notice there's no "who is responsible for this" entry here.
> > > > +Description: > > > + A system can expose information about how it was started in > > > + this directory. > > > > I do not understand what you mean by "how it was started". > > > > > + This information is agnostic as to the firmware implementation. > > > > How? This should be very firmware specific. > > The original patch was specific to a particular SoC vendor. Since the > information provided here is fairly generic in the end, I asked for > the interface > to be generalized to the point that it can be reused across multiple > vendors and architectures.
Ok, and is that what this interface provides?
thanks,
greg k-h
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