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From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
To: joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: jeremy.kerr@canonical.com, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH v2] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:52:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347544333.6707.1.camel@eddie.install.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347523843.596.30.camel@linux-s257.site>

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 16:10 +0800, joeyli wrote:

> Do we have plan to create a new kobject add to /sys/firmware/efi for
> provide a fixed mount point to efivars fs?
> e.g. /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
> 
> Or we just direct reuse current /sys/firmeware/efi/vars? But, that means
> we need think for the backward compatibility if choice reuse vars
> folder.

I'm not sure that's a terribly large concern - if you haven't updated
your tools to use the new efivars, don't mount the new efivars.

-- 
  Peter


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-06  5:40 [RFC,PATCH v2] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem Jeremy Kerr
2012-09-06 14:18 ` Matt Fleming
2012-09-06 14:23   ` Jeremy Kerr
2012-09-06 14:30     ` Matt Fleming
2012-09-06 14:37       ` Jeremy Kerr
2012-09-06 14:46         ` Matt Fleming
     [not found] ` <CAGLnvc9BXAW8F8WWyDxuF1_J+0np3uqUBmknuJewOJHhe-mxvw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-13  8:08   ` Fwd: " joeyli
2012-09-13  8:10   ` joeyli
2012-09-13 13:52     ` Peter Jones [this message]
2012-09-14  3:45       ` joeyli
2012-09-14  4:41         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-15  2:44           ` joeyli
2012-09-15  2:26   ` joeyli

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