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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] EFI: Add support for variables longer than 1024 bytes
On 12/14/2011 03:06 PM, Mike Waychison wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Completely agreed. I don't think a seq_file is warranted in this case
> in particular, but the dummification of the interfaces in sysfs sure
> makes it hard to do anything that isn't a "single value string".
>

Well, seq_file is a good way to deal with arbitrary length data.

-hpa



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