Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] partitions/efi: Support GPT entry lookup at a non-standard location
From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Sat May 16 2020 - 12:50:39 EST
16.05.2020 18:51, Randy Dunlap ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On 5/16/20 8:36 AM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> diff --git a/block/partitions/efi.c b/block/partitions/efi.c
>> index b64bfdd4326c..3af4660bc11f 100644
>> --- a/block/partitions/efi.c
>> +++ b/block/partitions/efi.c
>> @@ -621,6 +621,14 @@ static int find_valid_gpt(struct parsed_partitions *state, gpt_header **gpt,
>> if (!good_agpt && force_gpt)
>> good_agpt = is_gpt_valid(state, lastlba, &agpt, &aptes);
>>
>> + /* The force_gpt_sector is used by NVIDIA Tegra partition parser in
>> + * order to convey a non-standard location of the GPT entry for lookup.
>> + * By default force_gpt_sector is set to 0 and has no effect.
>> + */
>
> Please fix the multi-line comment format as described in
> Documentation/process/coding-style.rst.
>
>> + if (!good_agpt && force_gpt && state->force_gpt_sector)
>> + good_agpt = is_gpt_valid(state, state->force_gpt_sector,
>> + &agpt, &aptes);
>> +
>> /* The obviously unsuccessful case */
>> if (!good_pgpt && !good_agpt)
>> goto fail;
>
> thanks.
>
Hello Randy,
I know that it's not a proper kernel-style formatting, but that's the
style used by the whole efi.c source code and I wanted to maintain the
same style, for consistency. Of course I can change to a proper style if
it's more desirable than the consistency. Thank you for the comment!