On Wed, 27 May 2015 14:18:57 +0100, Matt Fleming 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]>
> ---
>  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

Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>

Thank you,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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