On Wed, 09 Jul, at 06:39:29PM, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote: > The original patch is from Ben Hutchings's contribution to debian > kernel. Got Ben's permission to remove the code of efi-pstore.c and > send to linux-efi: > https://github.com/BlankOn/linux-debian/blob/master/debian/patches/features/all/efi-autoload-efivars.patch > > efivars is generally useful to have on EFI systems, and in some cases > it may be impossible to load it after a kernel upgrade in order to > complete a boot loader update. At the same time we don't want to waste > memory on non-EFI systems by making them built-in. > > Instead, give them module aliases as if they are platform drivers, and > register a corresponding platform device whenever EFI runtime services > are available. This should trigger udev to load them. > > v2: > Moving platform device register code to drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c > ARM64 folks could also benefit from it. > > Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ > drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 1 + > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) Thanks, applied. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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
