From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753091Ab1CVDtl (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:49:41 -0400 Received: from ausc60ps301.us.dell.com ([143.166.148.206]:64155 "EHLO ausc60ps301.us.dell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752901Ab1CVDtj (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:49:39 -0400 X-Loopcount0: from 143.166.82.43 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:49:37 -0500 From: Matt Domsch To: Dan Williams Cc: gregkh@suse.de, Dave Jiang , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jacek.danecki@intel.com, ed.ciechanowski@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dmilburn@redhat.com, edmund.nadolski@intel.com, Mike Waychison Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware/efi: export a routine to retrieve efi-variables by GUID Message-ID: <20110322034937.GA20235@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> References: <20110318221606.26841.92271.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110318221606.26841.92271.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:16:22PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > From: Dave Jiang > > The efivars module already scans all available variables, normalizes the > variable names, and stores them in a list. Rather than duplicate this > to efi runtime services interface let drivers query variable data by > GUID. Mike Waychison made a lot of good edits to the driver which are staged for .39 in gregkh's tree. Some of those changes will conflict with your patch here, specifically the definition of struct efi_variable moved similar to what you have done here. You'll want to rebase your changes accordingly. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO