On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 15:28 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> When built with CONFIG_EFI_VARS=m, normal auotloading of the module when
> attempting to mount the fs does not work. Add a modalias to fix this.
>
> Before:
> # mount -t efivarfs none /mnt
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'efivarfs'
>
> After
> # mount -t efivarfs none /mnt
> Success!
>
> The problem still remains that /sys/firmware/efi/efivars does not exist before
> the module is loaded, so the mounting of the fs in its correct place still fails,
> but that's a problem for a separate patch.
>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
> index 7b1c374..b7cff5c 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
> @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx>");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("sysfs interface to EFI Variables");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("efivarfs");
> MODULE_VERSION(EFIVARS_VERSION);
>
> #define DUMP_NAME_LEN 52
Looks fine to me. Jeremy?
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