From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755473Ab2INDvP (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:51:15 -0400 Received: from smtp.nue.novell.com ([195.135.221.5]:46476 "EHLO smtp.nue.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759279Ab2INDu6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:50:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH v2] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem From: joeyli To: Peter Jones Cc: jeremy.kerr@canonical.com, Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Matt Domsch , glin@suse.com In-Reply-To: <1347544333.6707.1.camel@eddie.install.bos.redhat.com> References: <1346910035.47691.188651047712.1.gpush@pecola> <1347523843.596.30.camel@linux-s257.site> <1347544333.6707.1.camel@eddie.install.bos.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:45:42 +0800 Message-ID: <1347594342.705.33.camel@linux-s257.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Peter, 於 四，2012-09-13 於 09:52 -0400，Peter Jones 提到： > 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. > Thanks for your comment! Joey Lee