From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752343Ab2GTWLQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:11:16 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52793 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064Ab2GTWLP (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:11:15 -0400 Message-ID: <5009D770.1050905@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:10:56 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Khalid Aziz CC: mjg@redhat.com, mikew@google.com, tony.luck@intel.com, keescook@chromium.org, gong.chen@linux.intel.com, gregkh@suse.de, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, maxin.john@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, matt.fleming@intel.com, olof@lixom.net, dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shorten constant names for EFI variable attributes References: <20120720220841.GA32642@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20120720220841.GA32642@hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/20/2012 03:08 PM, Khalid Aziz wrote: > Replace very long constants for EFI variable attributes > with shorter and more convenient names. Also create an > alias for the current longer names so as to not break > compatibility with current API since these constants > are used by userspace programs. This patch depends on > patch . I think these some from the EFI specifcation, so NAK IMO. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.