Re: [PATCH 1/1] platform/x86: Add Slim Bootloader firmware update signaling driver

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:08 AM Jithu Joseph <jithu.joseph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

> > > +static ssize_t firmware_update_request_store(struct device *dev,
> > > +                                            struct
> > > device_attribute *attr,
> > > +                                            const char *buf,
> > > size_t count)
> > > +{
> > > +       bool val;
> > > +       int ret;
> > > +
> > > +       ret = kstrtobool(buf, &val);
> > > +       if (ret)
> > > +               return ret;
> > > +
> > > +       ret = set_fwu_request(dev, val ? 1 : 0);
> >
> > Hmm... If you are going to extend this, why not to pass integer
> > directly? (And thus take one from user)
>
> We have also been thinking about  extensibility â
>
> So I will modify the code to allow any u32 input by the user  to be
> passed down via wmi_set_block(), though 0 and 1 will be the only
> inputs  documented  in the ABI today.( Or did you still mean  to error
> out if the user input is something other than 0 or 1 ?)

I think the best approach is to allow to parse integer input
(kstrtouint() is good enough) and return -ERANGE for values > 1. Also
put a comment before that check why is done like this (some
justification that interface may be extended in the future or so), and
pass integer value directly to set_fwu_request().

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko