Re: [PATCH 4/4] arch_vars: create arch specific permanent store

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On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 01:11 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 09:39:35PM -0500, gjoyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> > From: Greg Joyce <gjoyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Platforms that have a permanent key store may provide unique
> > platform dependent functions to read/write variables. The
> > default (weak) functions return -EOPNOTSUPP unless overridden
> > by architecture/platform versions.
> 
> Which is none as of this patch set, as is the number of of users of
> this API.  Did this slip in by accident?

You are correct, there are currently no platforms that utilize this
key store interface. However, there is a pseries platform store that 
has a driver that will provide the interfaces. This is in a separate
patchset that is currently being submitted.




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