On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:01:16AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:59:16PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > WTF? Passing binary structures into a sysfs file, expecting it to be in > > the correct format/endianness? That's just wrong on so many levels. > > > > So, these files are deleted. If you want to add them back, please do so > > in configfs, or in debugfs. Or use text strings, which is what sysfs is > > only for. > > > I have tested gregkh's patches tree, which includes this patch, the > patch to put these back as binary blob interfaces, as well as other > cleanups, on an Itanium2 system. The efibootmgr userspace application > continues to work as it did before this patch series, which I claim is > success. For the patches that touch drivers/firmware/efivars.c I can > say: > > Tested-by: Matt Domsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Great, thanks for doing this, I appreciate it. greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
