Re: [RFC,PATCH v2] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem

From: Peter Jones
Date: Thu Sep 13 2012 - 09:52:15 EST


On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 16:10 +0800, joeyli wrote:

> Do we have plan to create a new kobject add to /sys/firmware/efi for
> provide a fixed mount point to efivars fs?
> e.g. /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
>
> Or we just direct reuse current /sys/firmeware/efi/vars? But, that means
> we need think for the backward compatibility if choice reuse vars
> folder.

I'm not sure that's a terribly large concern - if you haven't updated
your tools to use the new efivars, don't mount the new efivars.

--
Peter

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