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| -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); |