Re: [PATCH 5/5] efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default.

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:56:21PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Feb, at 02:50:05PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:20:04PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> > Although if we're at the stage of doing things this wat then is there
>> > much to be gained by having a filesystem interface in the first place?
>> 
>> These systems would be manually brickable regardless of what interface
>> you implemented, or under which operating system. Probably even from
>> the UEFI Shell.
>
>Right, and the old efivar sysfs code has a 1024-byte limit on the size
>of data, which is impractical.

*nod* - as discussed on irc. I hadn't realised that limitation.

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