'Twas brillig, and Tom Gundersen at 09/04/13 10:22 did gyre and gimble: > > On 9 Apr 2013 01:48, "Greg KH" <gre...@linuxfoundation.org > <mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org>> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:02:09AM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Seems on my system, I have to load the module "efivars" before I can >> > mount my efivarfs (mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars) >> > >> > Now, systemd should do this magically but for some reason it doesn't do >> > that. >> >> You need a newer kernel version that properly exports the efivarfs name >> to userspace, letting mount know what module to load. The 3.9-rc2 >> kernel release should have this change in it, so you can either backport >> the needed patch, or wait for 3.9 to be released. > > I don't think that's enough. It exports the alias, but the mountpoint > still won't exist until the module is loaded. For now you'll have to > compile the module into your kernel. > > Matt Flemming recently posted a patch series which fixes the problem, so > hopefully that will be in 3.10.
Cool, thanks Tom. I think we'll likely just make it a built-in for now rather than a module (at least for the short term). Seems the path of least resistance and solves a couple other issues too. Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
