Re: [PATCH] efivars: Allow disabling use as a pstore backend

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On 03/13/2013 10:07 AM, Seth Forshee wrote:
>>
>> Granted, this change does mean that your decision at compile time may be
>> final, and you can't enable the pstore code at runtime if you built your
>> kernel/efivars module with CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE=n. Arguably, I think
>> that's a feature that some people will want, e.g. "Don't allow enabling
>> the efivars pstore backend at all... no, srsly!".
> 
> Hmm. Since my original patch was to compile pstore support out
> completely, I interpreted Peter's suggestion to be allowing the user
> override the default even if the default is disabled. That's the
> assumption my implementation was based off of, but maybe I
> misunderstood.
> 
> But if Peter agrees with your changes then I'm fine with them too.
> 

I think there should be two compile-time options (one to compile in the
EFI pstore code at all, and one to set its default.)

	-hpa

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