On 26 May 2015 at 20:11, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr, at 06:10:48PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> >> I don't have any objections to this patch per se, but I am not crazy >> about the fact that the way the output is ordered is kernel<->userland >> ABI now >> But since there appears to be a precedent with ACPI20 before ACPI, >> that was already the case, apparently. >> So, >> >> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks Ard. > > I've thought about this for a long while and we always kinda treat the > results of sysfs files as ABI anyway. If SMBIOS 3 wasn't so new I > wouldn't entertain doing this, but I think it's OK in this situation. > OK. Then I guess we should at least document in Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-systab that the order in which the entries are enumerated is part of the ABI. Regards, Ard. -- 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
