Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272248AbTHIEst (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 00:48:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272252AbTHIEst (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 00:48:49 -0400 Received: from smtp2.us.dell.com ([143.166.85.133]:65497 "EHLO smtp2.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272248AbTHIEsr (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 00:48:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 23:48:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Matt Domsch X-X-Sender: mdomsch@humbolt.us.dell.com Reply-To: Matt Domsch To: Patrick Mochel cc: Matt Tolentino , , , , , Subject: Re: [patch] move efivars to drivers/efi In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 25 > Yes - have you considered doing a sysfs interface instead of procfs? :) It's crossed my mind, but I haven't had much time to spend on IA-64 the past year, and that isn't likely to change soon... I think the only tool that uses /proc/efi/vars is efibootmgr, which would also need to learn of a move to /sys. Your binary-blob interface for sysfs is exactly the right thing to use for it though. Anyone want to take a stab at switching it, or do you want to wait for me to have time? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/