From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752629AbdJLOdk (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:33:40 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:55820 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751853AbdJLOdi (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:33:38 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QBZ358mkJB5c38lB3Dyv3qI8mBXHWJyrc/EwuJSzv3d25hZXGEXf0cAOjXMCW9KjNo3i7CBpw== Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:33:35 +0200 From: Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, dvhart@infradead.org, andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, luto@kernel.org, quasisec@google.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net, mjg59@google.com, hch@lst.de, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 10/15] platform/x86: dell-smbios: add filtering capability for requests Message-ID: <20171012143335.bbw3cxojzp66nqi2@pali> References: <83dc225624f1cde5ee1797aebc945732444ded91.1507733291.git.mario.limonciello@dell.com> <20171012110903.3ab4ed5e@alans-desktop> <1200feb837864baa8a3be9740413f2e9@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1200feb837864baa8a3be9740413f2e9@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 12 October 2017 13:23:08 Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote: > The existing dcdbas calling interface tooling (libsmbios) expects to be able > to access all calls and all tokens. *The kernel doesn't filter any of it.* It does not mean that API/ABI was designed correctly or incorrectly. Existing old API/ABI is there and we are not going to change it... > I understand the ask to filter some calls and that's why patch 10/15 exists, > but please let me remind you this patch series is intended to /replace and > deprecate/ dcdbas userspace access. Now when there is a proposal for a new API/ABI, it should be designed correctly without need to redesign it again in future and address all problems which are found during review. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com