[RFC][PATCH 1/2] Add a layer of abstraction to use the memory reserved by device tree for ima buffer pass.

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Tue May 12 23:09:54 UTC 2020


On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 01:38:28PM -0700, Prakhar Srivastava wrote:
> Introduce a device tree layer for to read and store ima buffer
> from the reserved memory section of a device tree.

But why do I need 'a layer of abstraction'? I don't like them.

> Signed-off-by: Prakhar Srivastava <prsriva at linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/of/Kconfig  |   6 ++
>  drivers/of/Makefile |   1 +
>  drivers/of/of_ima.c | 165 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Who are the users of this code and why does it need to be here? Most 
code for specific bindings are not in drivers/of/ but with the user. It 
doesn't sound like there's more than 1 user.

>  include/linux/of.h  |  34 +++++++++
>  4 files changed, 206 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/of/of_ima.c



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