[PATCH 2/4] x86: efi: break efi_lookup_mapped_addr out to generic code

Leif Lindholm leif.lindholm at linaro.org
Wed Jun 26 10:11:30 EDT 2013


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 02:32:17PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun, at 07:11:01PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> > efi_lookup_mapped_addr is a handy helper function for translating
> > a physical address to the corresponding virtual one by scanning
> > through memmap.map.
> > 
> > This patch breaks it out into a new file for use elsewhere.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c       |   28 ----------------------------
> >  drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile     |    2 +-
> >  drivers/firmware/efi/efi-helper.c |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-helper.c
> 
> I'm not sure this function needs its own file. drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> is a suitable place for this.

Sure.
Would you be happy for me to start moving the other things mentioned
(config table parsing, common debug printout, global structs) in there too?

/
    Leif



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