On 11/17/13 at 07:29pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 11/17/2013 06:22 PM, Dave Young wrote: > > On 11/13/13 at 08:50am, Dave Young wrote: > >> On 11/12/13 at 06:51pm, Greg KH wrote: > >>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:37:25AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>>> On 11/12/2013 12:30 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> And these binary data blobs are a "standard" somewhere, and will not > >>>>> change per kernel version change? > >>>>> > >>>>> If so, that structure is fine with me. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Correct. The structure is documented in Documentation/x86/boot.txt, and > >>>> has been largely invariant (but extended) since the beginning of Linux. > >>>> It has sometimes taken some serious work to keep it that way. > >>> > >>> Ok, then use the binary sysfs file interface for these blobs, and > >>> everyone will be happy. > >> > >> Since we got an agreement I will move them to sysfs in next version. > > > > I have created one patch for the sysfs part this weekend, bug I'm hesitating to > > remove the debugfs part because currently there's already user, I tend to > > keep them in debugfs for now. > > > > What do you think, Peter? > > > > Yes, it makes sense to keep them for compatibility, at least for now. > What is the specific user that already exists? kexec-tools is using it to setup hardware_subarch.. -- Thanks Dave
