From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52EC5C433E1 for ; Mon, 25 May 2020 16:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7BD2070A for ; Mon, 25 May 2020 16:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2389021AbgEYQpE (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2020 12:45:04 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39434 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387766AbgEYQpD (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2020 12:45:03 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:3a1::42]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B5C4C061A0E; Mon, 25 May 2020 09:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F1F9F4A2; Mon, 25 May 2020 16:45:02 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 10:45:02 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Flavio Suligoi Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content Message-ID: <20200525104502.5fc16f83@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20200519084128.12756-1-f.suligoi@asem.it> References: <20200515114054.2496c171@lwn.net> <20200519084128.12756-1-f.suligoi@asem.it> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 19 May 2020 10:41:27 +0200 Flavio Suligoi wrote: > When an EFI variable is reading from: > > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars > > (for example using "hexdump"), the first 4 bytes of the > output are not the real EFI variable data, but the variable > attributes (in little-endian format). > > Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi Both patches applied, thanks. jon