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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg | 42 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg index e9e58d4ea60a..011dda4f8e8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-qemu_fw_cfg @@ -56,3 +56,45 @@ Description: entry via the control register, and reading a number of bytes equal to the blob size from the data register. + + --- Listing fw_cfg blobs by file name --- + + While the fw_cfg device does not impose any specific naming + convention on the blobs registered in the file directory, + QEMU developers have traditionally used path name semantics + to give each blob a descriptive name. For example: + + "bootorder" + "genroms/kvmvapic.bin" + "etc/e820" + "etc/boot-fail-wait" + "etc/system-states" + "etc/table-loader" + "etc/acpi/rsdp" + "etc/acpi/tables" + "etc/smbios/smbios-tables" + "etc/smbios/smbios-anchor" + ... + + In addition to the listing by unique selector key described + above, the fw_cfg sysfs driver also attempts to build a tree + of directories matching the path name components of fw_cfg + blob names, ending in symlinks to the by_key entry for each + "basename", as illustrated below (assume current directory is + /sys/firmware): + + qemu_fw_cfg/by_name/bootorder -> ../by_key/38 + qemu_fw_cfg/by_name/etc/e820 -> ../../by_key/35 + qemu_fw_cfg/by_name/etc/acpi/rsdp -> ../../../by_key/41 + ... + + Construction of the directory tree and symlinks is done on a + "best-effort" basis, as there is no guarantee that components + of fw_cfg blob names are always "well behaved". I.e., there is + the possibility that a symlink (basename) will conflict with + a dirname component of another fw_cfg blob, in which case the + creation of the offending /sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_name + entry will be skipped. + + The authoritative list of entries will continue to be found + under the /sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_key directory. |