As pointed out by Dave Young, /sys/firmware/efi/systab violates the sysfs one-value-per-file policy already, so adding more data items to it should be avoided. So let's remove the PROP= line that lists the address of the recently introduced Properties Table before it appears in a release.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> --- Matt pointed out that there still needs to be a way for kexec/x86 to access this data, since it needs to pass it on to the kexec kernel. That is way out of my area of expertise, so I will leave it to you to come up with something suitable there. drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c index 2eb31e28a35c..3804ecd4a77a 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c @@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ static ssize_t systab_show(struct kobject *kobj, str += sprintf(str, "BOOTINFO=0x%lx\n", efi.boot_info); if (efi.uga != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) str += sprintf(str, "UGA=0x%lx\n", efi.uga); - if (efi.properties_table != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) - str += sprintf(str, "PROP=0x%lx\n", efi.properties_table); return str - buf; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
