From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lingzhu Xiang Subject: Re: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:14:32 +0800 Message-ID: <51483A88.6060509@redhat.com> References: <5135BD66.1030005@redhat.com> <1362755479.15011.238.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> <513A2B29.8090705@redhat.com> <1363082900.15011.257.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> <513F0734.80600@redhat.com> <1363106125.15011.263.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> <51405943.2000601@redhat.com> <1363278817.15011.316.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> <1363618261.14988.4.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1363618261.14988.4.camel-ZqTwcBeJ+wsBof6jY8KHXm7IUlhRatedral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Matt Fleming Cc: Seiji Aguchi , Andre Heider , "linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On 03/18/2013 10:51 PM, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 19:31 +0000, Seiji Aguchi wrote: >> To fix the broken firmware, users need to erase the duplicated variable. >> Is it correct? > > I'm unsure whether that will fix the problem for all platforms. Lingzhu, > do you have any idea? I'm not very sure what is to "erase the duplicated variable". If the firmware is broken, the variable interfaces probably are also broken and can't be used to erase variable. Users need to reset nvram to a known clean state, but often the hardware doesn't provide such facility. > How does everyone feel about this version? Lingzhu, if I could get a > Tested-by for this version that would be great. This, plus some other > patches, are sitting on the 'urgent' branch. I will test this. The IBM x3100m4 is gone. It takes some time to figure out how to corrupt nvram in QEMU...