Re: [PATCH] x86: fix two sparse warnings in early boot string handling

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Feb 13 2014 - 09:01:53 EST


On 02/13/2014 02:31 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb, at 03:31:05PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> The real answer IMO ought to be that since arch/x86/boot/string.c is now
>> used separately from boot.h (eboot.c which includes efi-stub-helper.c
>> does *not* include boot.h) we may have to move those string functions
>> into a separate header file.
>>
>> Matt, do you have any opinions here?
>
> This makes sense to me. Perhaps arch/x86/boot/lib/string.c which would
> be useable by both arch/x86/boot/*.c and arch/x86/boot/compressed/*.c?
>

That would be fine, but the issue at hand isn't the .c file but the lack
of a corresponding .h file...

-hpa

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