From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
Cc: mjg@redhat.com, mikew@google.com, tony.luck@intel.com,
keescook@chromium.org, gong.chen@linux.intel.com, gregkh@suse.de,
paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, maxin.john@gmail.com,
rdunlap@xenotime.net, matt.fleming@intel.com, olof@lixom.net,
dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shorten constant names for EFI variable attributes
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:10:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5009D770.1050905@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120720220841.GA32642@hp.com>
On 07/20/2012 03:08 PM, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> Replace very long constants for EFI variable attributes
> with shorter and more convenient names. Also create an
> alias for the current longer names so as to not break
> compatibility with current API since these constants
> are used by userspace programs. This patch depends on
> patch <https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/13/313>.
I think these some from the EFI specifcation, so NAK IMO.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-20 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-20 22:08 [PATCH] Shorten constant names for EFI variable attributes Khalid Aziz
2012-07-20 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-07-20 22:30 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-07-20 22:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-07-20 22:46 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-07-23 13:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-07-26 17:28 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-07-26 17:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-09-25 15:41 ` [PATCH -next v2] " Khalid Aziz
2012-09-25 21:55 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-09-25 23:06 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-09-25 23:12 ` Matthew Garrett
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