Re: [PATCH v5] efi: split efisubsystem from efivars

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On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 19:43 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> This registers /sys/firmware/efi/{,systab,efivars/} whenever EFI is enabled
> and the system is booted with EFI.
> 
> 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.
> 
> v5: remove unnecessary #ifdef's
> v4: rebase on top of the chainsaw branch:
>     - split into efi.c and vars.c
>     - move systab from vars.c to efi.c
>     - address checkpatch warnings
> v3: rebase on top of new efi_enabled()
> v2: only create /sys/firmware/efi/efivars if the module is being compiled,
>     and move extern's to efi.h
> 
> 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>
> Cc: Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/Makefile     |   1 -
>  drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile |   2 +
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c    | 105 +++++
>  drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c   | 858 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/firmware/efivars.c    | 955 ------------------------------------------
>  include/linux/efi.h           |   2 +
>  6 files changed, 967 insertions(+), 956 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efivars.c

Thanks Tom, I've picked this up. I need to respin this branch against
Linus' because there were some efivars change this merge window.


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