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The UEFI specification does not make any mention of a maximum variable name size, so the headers and implementation shouldn't claim that one exists either. Comments referring to this limit have been removed or rewritten, as this is an implementation detail local to the Linux kernel. Where appropriate, the magic value of 1024 has been replaced with EFI_VAR_NAME_LEN, as this is used for the efi_variable struct definition. This in itself does not change any behavior, but should serve as points of interest when making future changes in the same area. A related build-time check has been added to ensure that the special 512 byte sized buffer will not overflow with a potentially decreased EFI_VAR_NAME_LEN. Signed-off-by: Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.