On 27 May 2015 at 15:18, Matt Fleming <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May, at 12:30:37PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>
>> OK. Then I guess we should at least document in
>> Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-systab that the order in
>> which the entries are enumerated is part of the ABI.
>
> Makes perfect sense to me. How about this?
>
> ---
>
> From ccb5f08bb71ae4199c75668c6beacd6b47fa186c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Matt Fleming <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 14:14:22 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] efi: Add 'systab' information to Documentation/ABI
>
> It's not clear right now that the order in which entries are displayed
> in /sys/firmware/efi/systab actually forms an ABI that userspace tools
> rely upon.
>
> Document the ABI along with the userspace tool that cares.
>
> Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ivan Khoronzhuk <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <[email protected]>

Still not crazy about it but here it goes :-)

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>


> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi 
> b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi
> index 05874da7ce80..e794eac32a90 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi
> @@ -18,3 +18,13 @@ Contact:     Dave Young <[email protected]>
>  Description:   It shows the physical address of config table entry in the EFI
>                 system table.
>  Users:         Kexec
> +
> +What:          /sys/firmware/efi/systab
> +Date:          April 2005
> +Contact:       [email protected]
> +Description:   Displays the physical addresses of all EFI Configuration
> +               Tables found via the EFI System Table. The order in
> +               which the tables are printed forms an ABI and newer
> +               versions are always printed first, i.e. ACPI20 comes
> +               before ACPI.
> +Users:         dmidecode
> --
> 2.1.0
>
> --
> Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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