CCing Simon and kexec list On 12/26/13 at 10:12am, Dave Young wrote: > On 12/25/13 at 05:55pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 12/25/2013 05:53 PM, Dave Young wrote: > > > Hi, Matt and Peter > > > > > > Currently /sys/firmware/efi/systab contains multi-lines for efi systab > > > entries. As previous discussion with Greg, this is not a good in sysfs. > > > I wonder if there's other users for this file except kexec-tools. > > > > > > If kexec-tools is the only user, maybe I can split it as several files. > > > In kexec-tools just use /sys/firmware/efi/"$entry_name" and if $entry_name > > > does not exist then switch to old systab file. > > > > > > > Yes, the sysfs standard is "one entry per datum". I have no idea about > > who the user(s) might be, though. > > Even the only known user kexec-tools, for new kernel + old kexec-tools we > have no way to support, maybe this systab should be kept forever...
