Re: [PATCH] efi/efivars: create efivars mount point when get variable services are available

2020-08-24 Thread joeyli
Hi Ard, On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:30:27AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 11:28, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote: > > > > The efivars filesystem depends on GetVariable or GetNextVariable EFI > > runtime services. So the /sys/firmware/efi/efivars does not need to be > > created when

Re: [PATCH] efi/efivars: create efivars mount point when get variable services are available

2020-08-20 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 11:28, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote: > > The efivars filesystem depends on GetVariable or GetNextVariable EFI > runtime services. So the /sys/firmware/efi/efivars does not need to be > created when GetVariable and GetNextVariable are not available. > > It is useful for userland to

[PATCH] efi/efivars: create efivars mount point when get variable services are available

2020-08-19 Thread Lee, Chun-Yi
The efivars filesystem depends on GetVariable or GetNextVariable EFI runtime services. So the /sys/firmware/efi/efivars does not need to be created when GetVariable and GetNextVariable are not available. It is useful for userland to determine the availability of efivars filesystem. Cc: Ilias