Re: [PATCH V5 2/2] scsi: ufs: Add configfs support for ufs provisioning

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jul 08 2018 - 16:21:58 EST


On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 11:50:40AM +0530, Sayali Lokhande wrote:
> This patch adds configfs support to provision ufs device at
> runtime. This feature can be primarily useful in factory or
> assembly line as some devices may be required to be configured
> multiple times during initial system development phase.
> Configuration Descriptors can be written multiple times until
> bConfigDescrLock attribute is zero.
>
> Configuration descriptor buffer consists of Device and Unit
> descriptor configurable parameters which are parsed from vendor
> specific provisioning file and then passed via configfs node at
> runtime to provision ufs device.
> CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS needs to be enabled for using this feature.

As mentioned before: this absolutely needs to be a separate
config option so that the code can be compiled out entirely.