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Message-ID: <20071116150116.GA8901@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:01:16 -0600 From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@...el.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 38/54] efivars: remove new_var and del_var files from sysfs On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:59:16PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > WTF? Passing binary structures into a sysfs file, expecting it to be in > the correct format/endianness? That's just wrong on so many levels. > > So, these files are deleted. If you want to add them back, please do so > in configfs, or in debugfs. Or use text strings, which is what sysfs is > only for. I have tested gregkh's patches tree, which includes this patch, the patch to put these back as binary blob interfaces, as well as other cleanups, on an Itanium2 system. The efibootmgr userspace application continues to work as it did before this patch series, which I claim is success. For the patches that touch drivers/firmware/efivars.c I can say: Tested-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com> Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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