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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
	mikew@google.com, keescook@chromium.org,
	gong.chen@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add missing attributes to EFI variable attribute print out from sysfs
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:54:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120713175428.GA19239@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5000604F.80804@hp.com>

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:52:15AM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE			-> EFI_VAR_NV
> EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS			-> EFI_VAR_BOOT
> EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS			-> EFI_VAR_RUNTIME
> EFI_VARIABLE_HARDWARE_ERROR_RECORD		-> EFI_VAR_HW_ERROR
> EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS		-> EFI_VAR_AUTH_WRITE
> EFI_VARIABLE_TIME_BASED_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS	-> EFI_VAR_TIMED_AUTH_WRITE
> EFI_VARIABLE_APPEND_WRITE			-> EFI_VAR_APPEND
> 
> Sounds reasonable?

Sounds great, but sadly they're exposed to userspace so changing them 
would be a problem. Adding aliases would be ugly but workable?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-13 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-13 15:38 [PATCH] Add missing attributes to EFI variable attribute print out from sysfs Khalid Aziz
2012-07-13 15:44 ` Kees Cook
2012-07-13 15:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-07-13 15:54   ` Khalid Aziz
2012-07-13 17:52   ` Khalid Aziz
2012-07-13 17:54     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-07-13 18:05       ` Khalid Aziz
     [not found]     ` <CAGTjWtA0LmQ-90zjYf0nho_LEra8nx32M1R7E6o=3S68UjfEHw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-07-13 19:10       ` Khalid Aziz

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