Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: add a check for a termination member

[Stefan Reinauer]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

Check for a terminating LAR member which tells us that no further LAR
member except the bootblock will be found after this member.
The LAR member has a normal MAGIC, but all other parts of struct
lar_header are 0xff. That way, adding a new member in place of the
terminating member will not need an erase cycle.

I don't see a gain in this. Since we know the position and size of the lar archive anyways, we know nothing will come after the bootblock.

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There should not be any headers that do not belong to real "files" in the lar, that would be breaking our model.

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