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To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] efivar: remove inappropriate uses of the efivar API
References: <20220617174851.1286026-1-ardb@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:00:45 +0300
In-Reply-To: <20220617174851.1286026-1-ardb@kernel.org> (Ard Biesheuvel's
        message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2022 19:48:47 +0200")
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Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> writes:

> The efivar layer is a caching non-volatile variable store abstraction
> that is normally backed by EFI, but in some cases, might be backed by
> Google SMI firmware interfaces instead.
>
> It is mainly used by efivarfs and EFI pstore, both of which actually
> need the caching and abstraction properties. However, there are a few
> other occurrences where efivar is not necessary, or used in an invalid
> way. So let's fix this up, and remove some impediments to refactoring
> and cleaning up the efivars layer in the future.
>
> Assuming there are no objections to these changes, I intend to queue
> them up in the EFI tree fairly soon, so that ongoing work depending on
> these changes can continue as well.
>

[...]

>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c |  25 ++---
>  drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/uefi.c                |  96 ++++++------------

Feel free to take the wireless patches via your tree:

Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>

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