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Message-ID: <1346942798.4244.91.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:46:38 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
To:	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH v2] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem

On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 22:37 +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> That's correct, but we can't use unlink to delete a secure variable, we 
> need to do a write instead, in order to provide the authentication 
> descriptor.

Ah, duh. Thanks for clearing that up.

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