Currently you can't mount efivarfs unless the efivar module is already
inserted. This is contrary to the usual way in linux, where we autoload
the necessary filesystem modules when a mount request is received. The
reason this doesn't happen for efivarfs is because the module is called
efivars not efivarfs. Fix this by adding a module alias for efivarfs.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index f5596db..62386a0 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("sysfs interface to EFI Variables");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_VERSION(EFIVARS_VERSION);
+MODULE_ALIAS("efivarfs"); /* we export the efivarfs filesystem */
#define DUMP_NAME_LEN 52
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