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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] efivars driver update and move
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:08:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083276494.8416.114.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040429211930.GC15106@lists.us.dell.com>

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 15:19, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:50:54PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > # stat BootOrder-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c\ /
> >   File: `BootOrder-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c /'
> 
> FWIW, my Intel Tiger2-based system doesn't have the space at the end...
> 
> >         *(short_name + strlen(short_name)) = '-';
> >         efi_guid_unparse(vendor_guid, short_name + strlen(short_name));
> >         *(short_name + strlen(short_name)) = ' ';
> 
> even though looking at this I would have expected it to...

   Yeah, I'm not sure how you couldn't have a space at the end...

> 
> Can you remove that last line and see what it does?  Best as I can
> tell, it isn't necessary or desired.

   Yes, removing that last line above gets rid of the space, everything
looks right, and efibootmgr doesn't complain.  I'd attach a patch but
I'm curious if Matt T. had some reason for adding it.

	Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Linux & Open Source Lab


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-29 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-22 17:14 [patch 1/3] efivars driver update and move Tolentino, Matthew E
2004-04-22 17:20 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-04-29 19:50 ` Alex Williamson
2004-04-29 21:19   ` Matt Domsch
2004-04-29 22:08     ` Alex Williamson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-22 17:32 Matt Tolentino
2004-04-22 16:46 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-04-23 22:29 ` Matt Domsch
2004-04-24  3:41   ` Matt Domsch
2004-04-26 18:57     ` Matt Domsch
2004-04-26 21:15 Matt Tolentino
2004-04-30  1:55 Matt Tolentino

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