Re: [PATCH] SPI LPC information kernel module

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:59:32PM -0300, Daniel Gutson wrote:
> This kernel module exports configuration attributes for the
> system SPI chip.
> This initial version exports the BIOS Write Enable (bioswe),
> BIOS Lock Enable (ble), and the SMM Bios Write Protect (SMM_BWP)
> fields of the Bios Control register. The idea is to keep adding more
> flags, not only from the BC but also from other registers in following
> versions.
> 
> The goal is that the attributes are avilable to fwupd when SecureBoot
> is turned on.
> 
> A technical note: I check if *ppos == BUFFER_SIZE in the reading function
> to exit early and avoid an extra access to the HW, for example when using
> the 'cat' command, which causes two read operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Gutson <daniel.gutson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/stable/securityfs-spi-lpc |  23 +
>  MAINTAINERS                                 |   6 +
>  drivers/misc/Kconfig                        |   1 +
>  drivers/misc/Makefile                       |   1 +
>  drivers/misc/spi_lpc/Kconfig                |  20 +
>  drivers/misc/spi_lpc/Makefile               |   8 +
>  drivers/misc/spi_lpc/bios_data_access.c     | 559 +++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/misc/spi_lpc/bios_data_access.h     | 181 +++++++
>  drivers/misc/spi_lpc/low_level_access.c     |  59 ++
>  drivers/misc/spi_lpc/low_level_access.h     |  21 +
>  drivers/misc/spi_lpc/spi_lpc_main.c         | 176 ++++++
>  drivers/misc/spi_lpc/viddid_arch_map.c      | 566 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/misc/spi_lpc/viddid_arch_map.h      |  17 +
>  13 files changed, 1638 insertions(+)

A single driver that is 1500 lines long is fine, why split this up into
tiny pieces?

thanks,

greg k-h