From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757104Ab3KHOet (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Nov 2013 09:34:49 -0500 Received: from arkanian.console-pimps.org ([212.110.184.194]:51058 "EHLO arkanian.console-pimps.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751118Ab3KHOer (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Nov 2013 09:34:47 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 14:34:21 +0000 From: Matt Fleming To: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Richard Weinberger , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matt.fleming@intel.com, matthew.garrett@nebula.com, jlee@suse.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: change name of efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter to efi_storage_paranoia Message-ID: <20131108143421.GB22636@console-pimps.org> References: <527C93B5.7010407@jp.fujitsu.com> <527C9B5C.6040509@nod.at> <527CB013.30200@jp.fujitsu.com> <527CB0F4.8080606@nod.at> <527CBC05.6080505@jp.fujitsu.com> <527CBD01.1000908@nod.at> <527CBDD3.2020609@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <527CBDD3.2020609@jp.fujitsu.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 08 Nov, at 07:32:51PM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote: > > Everything started with an issue that killed Samsung laptops: > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/22855.html > > > > Later it was found that if you write too much into UEFI variables many > > UEFI implementations will do bad things. > > Thanks for the information. > I will read it. Out of curiosity, what hardware are you using? -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center