On Mon, 28 Sep, at 01:44:16AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> efi-pstore should be auto-loaded on EFI systems, same as efivars.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This was included in Debian 8 "jessie" with no complaints so far
> (and without CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE set), so it seems
> to be safe to do.
>
> Ben.
>
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
> @@ -400,3 +400,4 @@ module_exit(efivars_pstore_exit);
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("EFI variable backend for pstore");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:efivars");
I'm OK with this change because it still relies on distributions to
actually enable the Kconfig option too, before it works.
Folks on Cc, please let me know if you have concerns.
--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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