linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 02/16] x86/efi: Add get and set variable to EFI services pointer table

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Message-ID: <1438269598.11322.2.camel@intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:19:58 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
To:	"Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@...il.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Matthew Garrett" <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	"Vojtech Pavlik" <vojtech@...e.cz>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/16] x86/efi: Add get and set variable to EFI
 services pointer table

On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 22:25 +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> Add get variable and set variable function to EFI services pointer
> table for supporting later functions of hibernate signature
> verification to keep the HMAC key in efi boot service veriable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@...e.com>

Maybe mention that we want to be able to read/write variables from
within the EFI boot stub? That's really why you want to add
{get,set}_variable pointers.

s/veriable/variable/

Rest of the patch looks good.

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