From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx> drivers/firmware/efivars.c has grown pretty large and is ~2K lines. Inside efivars.c there's currently, o code for handling EFI variables at the firmware-level o sysfs code for exposing EFI variables o a new EFI variable filesystem o a persistent storage backend all intertwined and smushed together. This situation is only going to get worse as new EFI support is added. We need an interface that hides the EFI variable operations in use so code isn't tempted to access them directly, e.g. efivarfs currently uses '__efivars' which means it doesn't work for CONFIG_GOOGLE_SMI as that uses different variable ops. With this interface in place, we can start moving independent code out into separate files, allowing users to only turn on the functionality that they want. This patch series introduces the new efivar_entry API, and splits out the major parts of efivars.c into new files. In particular, having the efivarfs code under fs/ allows building an efivarfs.ko module, which means mount(8) can automatically load it. The remaining EFI code is repositioned under drivers/firmware/efi/. The series is also available on the 'chainsaw' branch at, git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git Changes in v3: - Add Reviewed-by/Tested-by tags from Tom - Add a parameter to efivar_init() to turn off the duplicate variable detection. This is used in efivar_update_sysfs_entries() because the workqueue function is only invoked if the firmware's GetNextVariableName() is functioning properly. Changes in v2: - Add Reviewed-by/Acked-by tags from Mike - Allow both EFI variable ops to be built as requested by Mike (PATCH 2) - Fix deadlock and remove unnecessary logic changes in the pstore patch reported by Seiji (PATCH 3) Matt Fleming (5): efi: move utf16 string functions to efi.h efivars: Keep a private global pointer to efivars efivars: efivar_entry API efivars: Move pstore code into the new EFI directory efivarfs: Move to fs/efivarfs Tom Gundersen (1): efi: split efisubsystem from efivars MAINTAINERS | 13 +- drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 36 +- drivers/firmware/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 39 + drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile | 6 + drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c | 244 +++++ drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 134 +++ drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 617 +++++++++++ drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 1049 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 2171 ------------------------------------- drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c | 30 +- fs/Kconfig | 1 + fs/Makefile | 1 + fs/efivarfs/Kconfig | 12 + fs/efivarfs/Makefile | 7 + fs/efivarfs/file.c | 111 ++ fs/efivarfs/inode.c | 173 +++ fs/efivarfs/internal.h | 22 + fs/efivarfs/super.c | 267 +++++ include/linux/efi.h | 134 ++- 20 files changed, 2835 insertions(+), 2234 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c delete mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efivars.c create mode 100644 fs/efivarfs/Kconfig create mode 100644 fs/efivarfs/Makefile create mode 100644 fs/efivarfs/file.c create mode 100644 fs/efivarfs/inode.c create mode 100644 fs/efivarfs/internal.h create mode 100644 fs/efivarfs/super.c -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
