Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name

2012-08-20 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 01:15:20AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote: > From: Fenghua Yu > > Given a file's name, find its starting point in a cpio formated area. This > will s/file's/file/ cpio-formatted > be used to find microcode in combined initrd image. But this fun

Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name

2012-08-18 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 08/18/2012 09:35 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Yu, Fenghua wrote: >>> From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [mailto:h...@hmh.eng.br] On Sat, 18 Aug >>> 2012, Fenghua Yu wrote: Given a file's name, find its starting point in a cpio formated area. >>> This will >>>

Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name

2012-08-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Yu, Fenghua wrote: > > From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [mailto:h...@hmh.eng.br] On Sat, 18 Aug > > 2012, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > > Given a file's name, find its starting point in a cpio formated area. > > This will > > > be used to find microcode in combined initrd image. But t

RE: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name

2012-08-18 Thread Yu, Fenghua
linux-kernel; x86 > Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file > name > > On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > Given a file's name, find its starting point in a cpio formated area. > This will > > be used to find microcode in combined in

Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86/lib/cpio.c: Find cpio data by its file name

2012-08-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Fenghua Yu wrote: > Given a file's name, find its starting point in a cpio formated area. This > will > be used to find microcode in combined initrd image. But this function is > generic and could be used in other places. Shouldn't this (very useful) feature get its own docum