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authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2013-02-08 10:48:51 -0500
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2013-04-17 08:24:01 -0400
commit048517722cde2595a7366d0c3c72b8b1ec142a9c (patch)
tree1f54a4009c3f418285473e56bc930d606116bd11 /drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
parente14ab23dde12b80db4c94b684a2e485b72b16af3 (diff)
efivars: Move pstore code into the new EFI directory
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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1menu "EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) Support"
2 depends on EFI
3
4config EFI_VARS
5 tristate "EFI Variable Support via sysfs"
6 depends on EFI
7 default n
8 help
9 If you say Y here, you are able to get EFI (Extensible Firmware
10 Interface) variable information via sysfs. You may read,
11 write, create, and destroy EFI variables through this interface.
12
13 Note that using this driver in concert with efibootmgr requires
14 at least test release version 0.5.0-test3 or later, which is
15 available from Matt Domsch's website located at:
16 <http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr/testing/efibootmgr-0.5.0-test3.tar.gz>
17
18 Subsequent efibootmgr releases may be found at:
19 <http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr>
20
21config EFI_VARS_PSTORE
22 tristate "Register efivars backend for pstore"
23 depends on EFI_VARS && PSTORE
24 default y
25 help
26 Say Y here to enable use efivars as a backend to pstore. This
27 will allow writing console messages, crash dumps, or anything
28 else supported by pstore to EFI variables.
29
30config EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE
31 bool "Disable using efivars as a pstore backend by default"
32 depends on EFI_VARS_PSTORE
33 default n
34 help
35 Saying Y here will disable the use of efivars as a storage
36 backend for pstore by default. This setting can be overridden
37 using the efivars module's pstore_disable parameter.
38
39endmenu