From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030733Ab2GMRyb (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:54:31 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:41780 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751450Ab2GMRya (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:54:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:54:28 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Khalid Aziz 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 Message-ID: <20120713175428.GA19239@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20120713153827.GA8007@hp.com> <20120713154645.GA16059@srcf.ucam.org> <5000604F.80804@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5000604F.80804@hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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