linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/7 v2] export more efi table variable to sysfs

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Message-ID: <20131112004014.GA15377@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:40:14 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	dyoung@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, hpa@...or.com,
	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, vgoyal@...hat.com,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, horms@...ge.net.au,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, bp@...en8.de
Subject: Re: [patch 4/7 v2] export more efi table variable to sysfs

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 04:20:11PM +0800, dyoung@...hat.com wrote:
> Export fw_vendor, runtime and config tables physical
> addresses to /sys/firmware/efi/systab becaue kexec
> kernel will need them.

sysfs files are one-value-per-file.

Please don't abuse this and add more values to this single file, in
fact, it should be broken up into individual sysfs files as it is,
because this isn't ok now.

Sorry, you don't get to abuse this anymore :(

greg k-h
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