Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:00:39 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024 bytes |
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On 12/14/2011 02:57 PM, Mike Waychison wrote: > > Well,l we could *not* support returning all the data field for > datasize > 1024, and simply truncate the field. We are limited by > PAGE_SIZE by sysfs here anyway (so we don't really want to have a > variable size memcpy in efivar_show_raw). >
That may be the biggest reason to avoid sysfs. As far as I know sysfs doesn't allow seq_file to be used.
-hpa
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