Re: the userspace side of driverfs

From: Patrick Mochel (mochel@osdl.org)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 11:41:29 EST


> > For such cases where the data being exported is really binary,
> > having a common set of parse/unparse routines would be nice.
>
> I don't know what others think of this but i'd say that some
> binary files are appropriate.

Not a chance. The values will be ASCII, and that's all there is to it. If
I see someone exporting a binary file in driverfs, I'll submit a patch to
remove it. :)

Matt, I'm interested in working on exporting the EFI variables in an
ASCII manner, though time constraints are a bit stiff, and it's been a
while sincce I looked at anything EFI. Stay tuned...

        -pat

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