Re: [PATCH] Add missing attributes to EFI variable attribute printout from sysfs

[Matthew Garrett]

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?

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