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From: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] efi: libstub: treat missing SecureBoot variable as S/B disabled
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:56:21 +0000
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Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> But I did not appreciate at the time that this was a change in
> behavior nonetheless, and printing errors that are not errors only
> confuses people.

Perhaps just take the error message out and leave it to the main kernel to
deal with?

David