Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:41:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Patrick Mochel <> | Subject | Re: the userspace side of driverfs |
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> > For such cases where the data being exported is really binary, > > having a common set of parse/unparse routines would be nice. > > I don't know what others think of this but i'd say that some > binary files are appropriate.
Not a chance. The values will be ASCII, and that's all there is to it. If I see someone exporting a binary file in driverfs, I'll submit a patch to remove it. :)
Matt, I'm interested in working on exporting the EFI variables in an ASCII manner, though time constraints are a bit stiff, and it's been a while sincce I looked at anything EFI. Stay tuned...
-pat
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