History log of /linux-master/fs/efivarfs/Makefile
Revision Date Author Comments
# 2d82e622 20-Jun-2022 Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

efi: vars: Move efivar caching layer into efivarfs

Move the fiddly bits of the efivar layer into its only remaining user,
efivarfs, and confine its use to that particular module. All other uses
of the EFI variable store have no need for this additional layer of
complexity, given that they either only read variables, or read and
write variables into a separate GUIDed namespace, and cannot be used to
manipulate EFI variables that are covered by the EFI spec and/or affect
the boot flow.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>


# ec8f24b7 19-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

- Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# d68772b7 08-Feb-2013 Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

efivarfs: Move to fs/efivarfs

Now that efivarfs uses the efivar API, move it out of efivars.c and
into fs/efivarfs where it belongs. This move will eventually allow us
to enable the efivarfs code without having to also enable
CONFIG_EFI_VARS built, and vice versa.

Furthermore, things like,

mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

will now work if efivarfs is built as a module without requiring the
use of MODULE_ALIAS(), which would have been necessary when the
efivarfs code was part of efivars.c.

Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>