From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753069Ab2INElo (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:41:44 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48075 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751390Ab2INElm (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:41:42 -0400 Message-ID: <5052B576.8010500@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:41:26 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joeyli CC: Peter Jones , jeremy.kerr@canonical.com, Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Domsch , glin@suse.com Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH v2] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem References: <1346910035.47691.188651047712.1.gpush@pecola> <1347523843.596.30.camel@linux-s257.site> <1347544333.6707.1.camel@eddie.install.bos.redhat.com> <1347594342.705.33.camel@linux-s257.site> In-Reply-To: <1347594342.705.33.camel@linux-s257.site> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/13/2012 08:45 PM, joeyli wrote: > 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! > I think it is wrong. The new API should have a different path. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.