From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932124Ab3DIJiq (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Apr 2013 05:38:46 -0400 Received: from arkanian.console-pimps.org ([212.110.184.194]:45272 "EHLO arkanian.console-pimps.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934440Ab3DIJil (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Apr 2013 05:38:41 -0400 Message-ID: <5163E19E.5000507@console-pimps.org> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:38:38 +0100 From: Matt Fleming User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Weinberger CC: matt.fleming@intel.com, cbouatmailru@gmail.com, ccross@android.com, keescook@chromium.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthew.garrett@nebula.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] efivars: Implement no_storage_paranoia parameter References: <1365373938-25993-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> <1365373938-25993-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> In-Reply-To: <1365373938-25993-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/04/13 23:32, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Using this parameter one can disable the storage_size/2 check if > he is really sure that the UEFI does sane gc. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger > --- > drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) You need to make it clear that enabling this option may brick your machine if your firmware is buggy. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center