From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 04:26:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120903032642.GA21904@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9741b1ed-c285-4f89-b60d-337140194345@email.android.com>
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 06:59:37PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Well, appending is an action, not really a property of the variable that sticks around, no?
We could do this for append, but what happens if an attribute with
similar variables appears and doesn't neatly map to an O_ option? We
can't really argue for limiting attributes purely because they don't map
neatly onto POSIX semantics...
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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2012-08-30 17:22 ` [RFC,PATCH] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-31 0:42 ` Jeremy Kerr
2012-08-31 2:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-03 1:39 ` Jeremy Kerr
2012-09-03 1:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-03 3:15 ` Jeremy Kerr
2012-09-03 3:26 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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