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? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
