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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/13/2012 08:45 PM, joeyli wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> æ åï2012-09-13 æ 09:52 -0400ïPeter Jones æåï
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for your comment!

I think it is wrong.  The new API should have a different path.

	-hpa


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