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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024 bytes
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:00:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE92A97.5080606@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGTjWtARm_OA0qy2Cvtc-rrPFpH2+2QdFw4CvBAo-PJsfX6t6w@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/14/2011 02:57 PM, Mike Waychison wrote:
> 
> Well,l we could *not* support returning all the data field for
> datasize > 1024, and simply truncate the field.  We are limited by
> PAGE_SIZE by sysfs here anyway (so we don't really want to have a
> variable size memcpy in efivar_show_raw).
> 

That may be the biggest reason to avoid sysfs.  As far as I know sysfs
doesn't allow seq_file to be used.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-14 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14 21:06 Update UEFI variable support Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] uefi: Populate runtime_version Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] efi: Only create sysfs entries while booting or running Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:32   ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024 bytes Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:14   ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 22:39     ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:44       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-14 22:57         ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:58           ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-15 15:44             ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 22:57       ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 23:00         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-12-14 23:06           ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 23:22             ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-14 23:24               ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-15 15:43         ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-15 15:46           ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-15 15:48             ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-14 21:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] EFI: Add support for QueryVariableInfo() call Matthew Garrett

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