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On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 08:05:23AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:

> I see different platform patches trying to stick these blobs in
> different locations and ways to access (securityfs, sysfs, char device
> node), which seems crazy to me.  Why can't we at least pick one way to
> access these to start with, and then have the filesystem layout be
> platform-specific as needed, which will give the correct hints to
> userspace as to what it needs to do here?

Which other examples are you thinking of? I think this conversation may 
have accidentally become conflated with a different prior one and now 
we're talking at cross purposes.