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Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:40:40 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sourav Sen <souravs@india.hp.com>
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Subject: Re: [2.6.6 PATCH] Exposing EFI memory map
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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:22:46PM +0530, Sourav Sen wrote:
> 
> The following simple patch creates a read-only file
> "memmap" under <mount point>/firmware/efi/ in sysfs
> and exposes the efi memory map thru it.

No, data in this kind of format does not belong in sysfs.

thanks,

greg k-h