Re: [PATCH] Add missing attributes to EFI variable attribute print out from sysfs

[Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxx>]

On 07/13/2012 11:54 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:52:15AM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> > EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE			-> EFI_VAR_NV
> > EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS			-> EFI_VAR_BOOT
> > EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS			-> EFI_VAR_RUNTIME
> > EFI_VARIABLE_HARDWARE_ERROR_RECORD		-> EFI_VAR_HW_ERROR
> > EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS		-> EFI_VAR_AUTH_WRITE
> > EFI_VARIABLE_TIME_BASED_AUTHENTICATED_WRITE_ACCESS	-> EFI_VAR_TIMED_AUTH_WRITE
> > EFI_VARIABLE_APPEND_WRITE			-> EFI_VAR_APPEND
> >
> > Sounds reasonable?
> Sounds great, but sadly they're exposed to userspace so changing them
> would be a problem. Adding aliases would be ugly but workable?

Ugly but practical. I agree with creating alias. I can work up a patch that
creates the aliases in efi.h, and replaces all uses in kernel with shorter
names. This does not change ABI or API, so existing userspace programs will
continue to work.

--
Khalid Aziz
khalid.aziz@xxxxxx

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