Re: [PATCH] efivarfs: fix abnormal GUID in variable name by usingstrcpy to replace null with dash

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Wed Mar 06 2013 - 07:36:50 EST


On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 12:58 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le mercredi 06 mars 2013 Ã 11:19 +0000, Matt Fleming a Ãcrit :
>
> > Also, which machine did you see this behaviour on?
>
> HP z220 desktop, System BIOS K51 v 1.54
>
> this issue is only the "Secure Boot" related variables, which make me
> think HP incorrectly created them in their latest firmware (where they
> added Windows 8 support).

Are you saying that the behaviour regarding VariableNameSize changes
depending on which variable is returned?

Mercy.....

Thanks for the info.

--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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