On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 01:33, Zhuo, Qiuxu <qiuxu.zhuo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > From: linux-efi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-efi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
> >...
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 21:12, Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Change Log v5->v6:
> > > Part1: No changes.
> > > Part2: Update capsule-pstore.c file header.
> > > Move the variable 'efi_capsule_pstore_info' backward (for removing
> > some function declarations).
> > >
> >
> > This conflicts badly with the efi/core changes queued up in the tip tree (and hence linux-next) Please rebase and repost
>
> Hi Ard,
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> The following commit on the tip tree removes the variables 'config_table' from the efi structure.
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> 9cd437ac0ef4 ("efi/x86: Make fw_vendor, config_table and runtime sysfs nodes x86 specific")
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> But the external driver "capsule-pstore.ko" needs to access 'config_table' and 'nr_tables' to go through
> the configuration table to extract crash capsules.
>
> Adding 'config_table' and 'nr_tables' back to the efi structure looks like not a good way.
> Do you have any suggestion on how to export 'config_table' and 'nr_tables' variables for the external driver "capsule-pstore.ko"?
>
I will get back to you on monday about this. In any case, this will
have to wait until v5.8
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