Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] efi: efivars: don't crash in efivar_set_variable{,_locked} in r/o case

[Johan Hovold]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 06:05:51PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 02:27:46PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > Ok, so then there are no current drivers that will benefit from your
> > change, but you may (or may not) need it if you enable RO efivars on
> > this particular platform. That is, this patch is not actually fixing
> > anything that is broken currently.
> 
> I'd leave that to a discretion of EFI / EFI vars maintainers. RTC driver
> definitely is broken in its current state.

Again, no. We only need this when you start enabling RO efivars on
Qualcomm platforms. So you're not fixing anything that is currently
broken.

Johan