Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] platform/x86: think-lmi: Correct NVME password handling

[Mark Pearson]

On Mon, May 29, 2023, at 11:41 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Mon, 29 May 2023, Mark Pearson wrote:
>> On Mon, May 29, 2023, at 8:03 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>> > On Fri, 26 May 2023, Mark Pearson wrote:
>> >
>> >> NVME passwords identifier have been standardised across the Lenovo
>> >> systems and now use udrp and adrp (user and admin level) instead of
>> >> unvp and mnvp.
>> >> 
>> >> This should apparently be backwards compatible.
>> >> 
>> >> Also cleaned up so the index is set to a default of 1 rather than 0
>> >> as this just makes more sense (there is no device 0).
>> >
>> > These two sound entirely separate changes. If that's the case, please 
>> > make own patch from the send change.
>> 
>> Ack. It was all related to the index setting and seemed trivial so I 
>> lumped together but I can split. This patch series is turning into a 
>> good learning exercise for my git skills :) (which are limited)
>>
>> > Hmm, index_store() still allows 0, is that also related here? Please check 
>> > also ABI documentation as index default seems to be mentioned there as 
>> > well.
>> >
>> 
>> I'd rather not limit it so 0 isn't allowed in case our BIOS team does 
>> something weird in the future; but right now 1 is the default so it 
>> makes more sense.
>
> Sure, do what you feel makes sense here. I was just pointing out the 
> perceived inconsistency in case it wasn't intentional.
>
> It might be useful to add one sentence into changelog about the reasoning 
> so it can be found easier later on (effectively the paragraph you wrote 
> above with small tweaks is enough I think).

Ack - will do. Thanks

Mark