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DateThu, 12 Sep 2002 09:41:29 -0700 (PDT)
FromPatrick Mochel <>
SubjectRe: the userspace side of driverfs
> > 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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