From 963fabf37f6a94214a823df0a785e653cb8ad6ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:20:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] efi: efivars: limit availability to X86 builds
CONFIG_EFI_VARS controls the code that exposes EFI variables via
sysfs entries, which was deprecated before support for non-Intel
architectures was added to EFI. So let's limit its availability
to Intel architectures for the time being, and hopefully remove
it entirely in the not too distant future.
While at it, let's remove the module alias so that the module is
no longer loaded automatically.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/arm/uefi.rst | 2 +-
drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 13 ++++---------
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 f868330df6beb..f732f957421ff 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 80f5c67e36384..da1887f72a519 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 a76f50e15e6d5..e6b16b3a17a8c 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);