On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:59:16PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> WTF? Passing binary structures into a sysfs file, expecting it to be in
> the correct format/endianness? That's just wrong on so many levels.
>
> So, these files are deleted. If you want to add them back, please do so
> in configfs, or in debugfs. Or use text strings, which is what sysfs is
> only for.
I have tested gregkh's patches tree, which includes this patch, the
patch to put these back as binary blob interfaces, as well as other
cleanups, on an Itanium2 system. The efibootmgr userspace application
continues to work as it did before this patch series, which I claim is
success. For the patches that touch drivers/firmware/efivars.c I can
say:
Tested-by: Matt Domsch <[email protected]>
Thanks,
Matt
--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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