linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule update

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Date:	Tue, 4 Nov 2014 14:07:51 +0000
From:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Kweh Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@...el.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	"Sam Protsenko" <semen.protsenko@...aro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ong Boon Leong <boon.leong.ong@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable user helper interface for efi capsule
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On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 16:38 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> Good point, I don't know.
> 
> Who ever wrote this code should know this, can someone please provide a
> use-case for how this is all supposed to work?

That would be Wilson. He's wanting to use this to send updates to the
firmware on the Intel Quark, I think.

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