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efi: add efivars kobject to efi sysfs folder
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UEFI variable filesystem need a new mount point, so this patch add
efivars kobject to efi_kobj for create a /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
folder.

Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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Lee, Chun-Yi authored and Matt Fleming committed Oct 30, 2012
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions drivers/firmware/efivars.c
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Expand Up @@ -1527,6 +1527,7 @@ void unregister_efivars(struct efivars *efivars)
sysfs_remove_bin_file(&efivars->kset->kobj, efivars->del_var);
kfree(efivars->new_var);
kfree(efivars->del_var);
kobject_put(efivars->kobject);
kset_unregister(efivars->kset);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_efivars);
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goto out;
}

efivars->kobject = kobject_create_and_add("efivars", parent_kobj);
if (!efivars->kobject) {
pr_err("efivars: Subsystem registration failed.\n");
error = -ENOMEM;
kset_unregister(efivars->kset);
goto out;
}

/*
* Per EFI spec, the maximum storage allocated for both
* the variable name and variable data is 1024 bytes.
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/efi.h
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Expand Up @@ -662,6 +662,7 @@ struct efivars {
spinlock_t lock;
struct list_head list;
struct kset *kset;
struct kobject *kobject;
struct bin_attribute *new_var, *del_var;
const struct efivar_operations *ops;
struct efivar_entry *walk_entry;
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