Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270426AbTHLPKe (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:10:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270438AbTHLPKe (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:10:34 -0400 Received: from fmr04.intel.com ([143.183.121.6]:19689 "EHLO caduceus.sc.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270426AbTHLPK3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:10:29 -0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 Subject: RE: [patch] move efivars to drivers/efi Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:10:23 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [patch] move efivars to drivers/efi Thread-Index: AcNeMXwEo/YKYJpPQiq3CrYNdpdCQgCsh6NA From: "Tolentino, Matthew E" To: "Matt Domsch" , "Patrick Mochel" Cc: "Matt Tolentino" , , , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Aug 2003 15:10:24.0081 (UTC) FILETIME=[DAC6CC10:01C360E3] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 863 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? Sure, I'll see if I can cook this up in the next few days and send an updated patch... matt - 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/