linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] efi: add comment to avoid future expanding of sysfs systab

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Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:16:22 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: add comment to avoid future expanding of sysfs
 systab

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 05:42:27PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> /sys/firmware/efi/systab shows several different values, it breaks sysfs
> one file one value design.  But since there are already userspace tools
> depend on it eg. kexec-tools so add code comment to alert future expanding
> of this file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>