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Message-ID: <20200525104502.5fc16f83@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 25 May 2020 10:45:02 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@...m.it>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] docs: filesystems: add info about efivars
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On Tue, 19 May 2020 10:41:27 +0200
Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@...m.it> wrote:

> When an EFI variable is reading from:
> 
> /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
> 
> (for example using "hexdump"), the first 4 bytes of the
> output are not the real EFI variable data, but the variable
> attributes (in little-endian format).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@...m.it>

Both patches applied, thanks.

jon