From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758134Ab1LNVGv (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:06:51 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1955 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756603Ab1LNVGt (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:06:49 -0500 From: Matthew Garrett To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mikew@google.com, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Update UEFI variable support Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:06:27 -0500 Message-Id: <1323896791-10858-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 66.187.233.202 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg@redhat.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Our EFI variable support is artifically limited at the moment. This patchset adds support for arbitrary variable sizes, limited only by what the platform supports. It also fixes a case where we were unnecessarily fiddling with sysfs while in the process of shutting down or crashing, which triggered some other issues.