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Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH v2] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem
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Hi Matt,

> Am I correct in thinking that this filesystem doesn't handle deletion of
> authenticated variables?

Unless I'm missing something, this should work fine; we just pass the 
EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATION_2 descriptor (with the usual attribute 
header), but no data following the descriptor.

Cheers,


Jeremy