[patch 4/7 v2] export more efi table variable to sysfs

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Nov 12 03:31:10 EST 2013


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 04:24:01PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 11/12/13 at 04:19pm, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 11/11/13 at 04:40pm, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 04:20:11PM +0800, dyoung at redhat.com wrote:
> > > > Export fw_vendor, runtime and config tables physical
> > > > addresses to /sys/firmware/efi/systab becaue kexec
> > > > kernel will need them.
> > > 
> > > sysfs files are one-value-per-file.
> > > 
> > > Please don't abuse this and add more values to this single file, in
> > > fact, it should be broken up into individual sysfs files as it is,
> > > because this isn't ok now.
> > > 
> > > Sorry, you don't get to abuse this anymore :(
> > 
> > Ok, I know this, just creating this without thinking about carefully.
> > Will redo the patch, thanks for catching.
> 
> I would like to add new files for the values used in this patchset.
> And will split the original systab later in another patchset.

That's fine with me, thanks.

greg k-h



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