RE: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] efivars: Disable external interrupt whileholding efivars->lock

[Seiji Aguchi]

> This isn't necessary (nor desirable).  If the API here is that we get called from process context for ->open and ->close(), just use the
> spin_lock_irq and spin_unlock_irq variants for these paths (avoiding the need to remove the lock acquire in ->open and ->close.

OK. I will update my patch based on your comment above.
Thank you for your quick response.

Seiji

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