From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752834Ab2IMNwY (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:52:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37459 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751224Ab2IMNwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:52:22 -0400 Message-ID: <1347544333.6707.1.camel@eddie.install.bos.redhat.com> Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH v2] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem From: Peter Jones To: joeyli Cc: jeremy.kerr@canonical.com, Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Matt Domsch Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:52:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1347523843.596.30.camel@linux-s257.site> References: <1346910035.47691.188651047712.1.gpush@pecola> <1347523843.596.30.camel@linux-s257.site> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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