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From: "Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>
To: Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>,
	devel@edk2.groups.io, gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn
Cc: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@intel.com>, Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>,
	Yuwei Chen <yuwei.chen@intel.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 回复: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] MdeModulePkg: Warn if out of flash space when writing variables
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 15:34:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <558c78ba-6b94-4bf6-ff57-4d3111dae4be@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+bRGFqJGPGAFGBY_pjJWoRZsbGm+ffyf9LHxYQwK=Pkm9DBmQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/5/24 13:44, Oliver Steffen wrote:

> The root cause is of course not addressed by this, but it might also be
> hard to solve. One would have to identify obsolete network/hardware
> settings somehow, but there is no way to tell if a certain NIC/MAC
> might come back at a later point or not.

Tricky because, even if you could identify a non-volatile variable named
after a MAC that matched *no* NIC in the system, you still might not
want to remove that variable. What if the user unplugged the NIC only
temporarily, and "wanted their settings back" upon re-plugging the NIC?

Laszlo



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      reply	other threads:[~2024-03-05 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-04 15:18 [edk2-devel] [PATCH v1 0/1] MdeModulePkg: Warn if out of flash space when writing variables Oliver Steffen
2024-03-04 15:18 ` [edk2-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] " Oliver Steffen
2024-03-04 17:26   ` Laszlo Ersek
2024-03-05  0:40   ` 回复: " gaoliming via groups.io
2024-03-05  7:33     ` Laszlo Ersek
2024-03-05 12:44       ` Oliver Steffen
2024-03-05 14:34         ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]

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