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Re: [RFC PATCH 02/16] x86/efi: Add get and set variable to EFI services pointer table

From	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH 02/16] x86/efi: Add get and set variable to EFI services pointer table
Date	2015-07-30 17:30 +0200
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On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 22:25 +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> Add get variable and set variable function to EFI services pointer
> table for supporting later functions of hibernate signature
> verification to keep the HMAC key in efi boot service veriable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>

Maybe mention that we want to be able to read/write variables from
within the EFI boot stub? That's really why you want to add
{get,set}_variable pointers.

s/veriable/variable/

Rest of the patch looks good.

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Re: [RFC PATCH 02/16] x86/efi: Add get and set variable to EFI  services pointer table Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> - 2015-07-30 17:30 +0200

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