From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753800AbbAEOP0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2015 09:15:26 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com ([74.125.82.171]:52424 "EHLO mail-we0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753228AbbAEOPY (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2015 09:15:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 14:15:21 +0000 From: Matt Fleming To: Leif Lindholm Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, matthew.garrett@nebula.com, jk@ozlabs.org, matt.fleming@intel.com, pjones@redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] fs: make efivarfs a pseudo filesystem, built by default with EFI Message-ID: <20150105141521.GC3163@console-pimps.org> References: <1418925049-3659-1-git-send-email-leif.lindholm@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1418925049-3659-1-git-send-email-leif.lindholm@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 18 Dec, at 05:50:49PM, Leif Lindholm wrote: > efivars is currently enabled under MISC_FILESYSTEMS, which is decribed > as "such as filesystems that came from other operating systems". > In reality, it is a pseudo filesystem, providing access to the kernel > UEFI variable interface. > > Since this is the preferred interface for accessing UEFI variables, over > the legacy efivars interface, also build it by default as a module if > CONFIG_EFI. > > Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm > --- > fs/Kconfig | 2 +- > fs/efivarfs/Kconfig | 1 + > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Looks good to me Leif. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll apply this to the 'next' branch of the EFI tree this week. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center