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efivars: Move pstore code into the new EFI directory

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efivars.c has grown far too large and needs to be divided up. Create a
new directory and move the persistence storage code to efi-pstore.c now
that it uses the new efivar API. This helps us to greatly reduce the
size of efivars.c and paves the way for moving other code out of
efivars.c.

Note that because CONFIG_EFI_VARS can be built as a module efi-pstore
must also include support for building as a module.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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Matt Fleming
2013-02-08 15:48:51 +00:00
parent e14ab23dde
commit 048517722c
8 changed files with 340 additions and 301 deletions
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@@ -36,41 +36,6 @@ config FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
See also Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap.
config EFI_VARS
tristate "EFI Variable Support via sysfs"
depends on EFI
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 Matt Domsch's website located at:
<http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr/testing/efibootmgr-0.5.0-test3.tar.gz>
Subsequent efibootmgr releases may be found at:
<http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr>
config EFI_VARS_PSTORE
bool "Register efivars backend for pstore"
depends on EFI_VARS && PSTORE
default y
help
Say Y here to enable use efivars as a backend to pstore. This
will allow writing console messages, crash dumps, or anything
else supported by pstore to EFI variables.
config EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE
bool "Disable using efivars as a pstore backend by default"
depends on EFI_VARS_PSTORE
default n
help
Saying Y here will disable the use of efivars as a storage
backend for pstore by default. This setting can be overridden
using the efivars module's pstore_disable parameter.
config EFI_PCDP
bool "Console device selection via EFI PCDP or HCDP table"
depends on ACPI && EFI && IA64
@@ -164,5 +129,6 @@ config ISCSI_IBFT
Otherwise, say N.
source "drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig"
source "drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig"
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