On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:16:22PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>

The efivars module already scans all available variables, normalizes the
variable names, and stores them in a list.  Rather than duplicate this
to efi runtime services interface let drivers query variable data by
GUID.

Mike Waychison made a lot of good edits to the driver which are staged
for .39 in gregkh's tree.  Some of those changes will conflict with
your patch here, specifically the definition of struct efi_variable
moved similar to what you have done here.

You'll want to rebase your changes accordingly.

Thanks,
Matt

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