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SubjectRe: [RFC,PATCH v2] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem
On 09/13/2012 08:45 PM, joeyli wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> 於 四,2012-09-13 於 09:52 -0400,Peter Jones 提到:
>> On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 16:10 +0800, joeyli wrote:
>>
>>> Do we have plan to create a new kobject add to /sys/firmware/efi for
>>> provide a fixed mount point to efivars fs?
>>> e.g. /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
>>>
>>> Or we just direct reuse current /sys/firmeware/efi/vars? But, that means
>>> we need think for the backward compatibility if choice reuse vars
>>> folder.
>>
>> I'm not sure that's a terribly large concern - if you haven't updated
>> your tools to use the new efivars, don't mount the new efivars.
>>
>
> Thanks for your comment!
>

I think it is wrong. The new API should have a different path.

-hpa


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