All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH 0/7] efi: deprecate/remove efivars sysfs interface
@ 2020-09-23 16:13 Ard Biesheuvel
  2020-09-23 16:13 ` [PATCH 1/7] efi: pstore: disentangle from deprecated efivars module Ard Biesheuvel
                   ` (6 more replies)
  0 siblings, 7 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Ard Biesheuvel @ 2020-09-23 16:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: linux-efi, Ard Biesheuvel, Matthew Garrett, Peter Jones,
	Kees Cook, Anton Vorontsov, Colin Cross, Tony Luck

This series implements the deprecation and ultimate removal of the sysfs
interface that exposes the contents of the EFI variable store.

I am fully aware that removing this sysfs interface entirely may be
premature, and so patch #7 is included for reference only, and not
proposed for inclusion right away.

Instead, patch #6 limits availability of the efivars module to X86
and IA64, which is reasonable, given that the efivars module was
superseded by the efivarfs filesystem interface before EFI support
for ARM architectures was even available in Linux.

Patches #1 to #5 remove all dependencies [true or false] on the efivars.c
code and its CONFIG_EFI_VARS Kconfig symbol, so it can be disabled [or
dropped] cleanly.

Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Ard Biesheuvel (7):
  efi: pstore: disentangle from deprecated efivars module
  efi: pstore: move workqueue handling out of efivars
  efi: efivars: un-export efivars_sysfs_init()
  efi: gsmi: fix false dependency on CONFIG_EFI_VARS
  efi: remove some false dependencies on CONFIG_EFI_VARS
  efi: efivars: limit availability to X86 builds
  efi: efivars: remove deprecated sysfs interface

 .../ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars        |  75 --
 Documentation/arm/uefi.rst                    |   2 +-
 drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig                  |  22 +-
 drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile                 |   1 -
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c             |  83 +-
 drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c                | 711 ------------------
 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c                   |  21 -
 drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig               |   2 +-
 drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c                |   8 +-
 include/linux/efi.h                           |  18 -
 10 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 858 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-firmware-efi-vars
 delete mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c

-- 
2.17.1


^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2020-09-24 10:30 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2020-09-23 16:13 [PATCH 0/7] efi: deprecate/remove efivars sysfs interface Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-23 16:13 ` [PATCH 1/7] efi: pstore: disentangle from deprecated efivars module Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-23 18:41   ` Kees Cook
2020-09-23 18:43     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-23 21:02       ` Kees Cook
2020-09-24  9:45         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-24 10:30           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-23 16:13 ` [PATCH 2/7] efi: pstore: move workqueue handling out of efivars Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-23 16:14 ` [PATCH 3/7] efi: efivars: un-export efivars_sysfs_init() Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-23 16:14 ` [PATCH 4/7] efi: gsmi: fix false dependency on CONFIG_EFI_VARS Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-23 16:14 ` [PATCH 5/7] efi: remove some false dependencies " Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-23 16:14 ` [PATCH 6/7] efi: efivars: limit availability to X86 builds Ard Biesheuvel
2020-09-23 16:14 ` [PATCH 7/7] efi: efivars: remove deprecated sysfs interface Ard Biesheuvel

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.