> What is the harm of not using this and just letting the number be infinite > (or until EFI runs out of space)? Is it a big deal if extra failures > are logged?
There may be someone using NVRAM for other purposes. Actually, we have the user interface, /sys/firmware/efi/vars/new_vars, del_vars. In this case, they want to avoid filling with unneeded logs. > The hope would be a daemon would clear the old logs out and you never run out > of space. In most case But as Tony mentioned, NVRAM may be filled with multiple oops even if we have the daemon. Seiji -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
