Re: [PATCH] efi: split efisubsystem from efivars

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On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 16:36 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> This registers /sys/firmware/efi{,/efivars} whenever EFI is enabled
> and the system supports it.
> 
> This allows
>  *) userspace to check for the existence of /sys/firmware/efi as a way
>     to determine whether or it is running on an EFI system.
>  *) 'mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars' without manually
>     loading any modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chun-Yi Lee <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/Makefile    |  1 +
>  drivers/firmware/efisubsys.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/firmware/efivars.c   | 30 +++++--------------------
>  3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efisubsys.c

Tom, this patch is still on my radar. It's just that I thought it was
*such* a good idea I decided to chainsaw the existing efivars code to
make it more modular and eventually split things up into a new
drivers/firmware/efi directory.

Please bear with me.


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