Re: [PATCH v2 09/14] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Use generic microcode headers and functions

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 09:26:19AM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> But seems a bit hacky.  Other ideas?

Yeah, that looks not too optimal.

How about you still allocate but at driver init time, ifs_init() or so?

And deallocate it at driver removal so that its always present during
the driver's lifetime and can be reused each time the sanity check is
called.

And you call ifs_load_firmware() under the ifs_sem so you already got
sync too.

Hmmm.

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