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| author | Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> | 2020-09-23 10:20:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> | 2020-09-29 19:40:57 +0200 |
| commit | 963fabf37f6a94214a823df0a785e653cb8ad6ea (patch) | |
| tree | 580134c0c88daa1bc100ac9fd19810900130a0e7 | |
| parent | efi: remove some false dependencies on CONFIG_EFI_VARS (diff) | |
| download | linux-963fabf37f6a94214a823df0a785e653cb8ad6ea.tar.xz linux-963fabf37f6a94214a823df0a785e653cb8ad6ea.zip | |
efi: efivars: limit availability to X86 builds
CONFIG_EFI_VARS controls the code that exposes EFI variables via
sysfs entries, which was deprecated before support for non-Intel
architectures was added to EFI. So let's limit its availability
to Intel architectures for the time being, and hopefully remove
it entirely in the not too distant future.
While at it, let's remove the module alias so that the module is
no longer loaded automatically.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/uefi.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 1 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/uefi.rst b/Documentation/arm/uefi.rst index f868330df6be..f732f957421f 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/uefi.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm/uefi.rst @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ makes it possible for the kernel to support additional features: For actually enabling [U]EFI support, enable: - CONFIG_EFI=y -- CONFIG_EFI_VARS=y or m +- CONFIG_EFIVAR_FS=y or m The implementation depends on receiving information about the UEFI environment in a Flattened Device Tree (FDT) - so is only available with CONFIG_OF. diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig index 80f5c67e3638..da1887f72a51 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig @@ -4,20 +4,15 @@ menu "EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) Support" config EFI_VARS tristate "EFI Variable Support via sysfs" - depends on EFI + depends on EFI && (X86 || IA64) default n help If you say Y here, you are able to get EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) variable information via sysfs. You may read, write, create, and destroy EFI variables through this interface. - - Note that using this driver in concert with efibootmgr requires - at least test release version 0.5.0-test3 or later, which is - available from: - <http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr/testing/efibootmgr-0.5.0-test3.tar.gz> - - Subsequent efibootmgr releases may be found at: - <http://github.com/vathpela/efibootmgr> + Note that this driver is only retained for compatibility with + legacy users: new users should use the efivarfs filesystem + instead. config EFI_ESRT bool diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c index a76f50e15e6d..e6b16b3a17a8 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("sysfs interface to EFI Variables"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_VERSION(EFIVARS_VERSION); -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:efivars"); static LIST_HEAD(efivar_sysfs_list); |