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authorDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>2017-12-06 12:50:10 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-12-06 21:32:23 +0300
commit0b02e448a2ebb46eb9be4f1bdfc87112bd420cbf (patch)
tree5ffd862e74126b2913fd5dd5e825077dc137b574 /drivers
parent89c5a2d34bda58319e3075e8e7dd727ea25a435c (diff)
downloadlinux-0b02e448a2ebb46eb9be4f1bdfc87112bd420cbf.tar.xz
efi: Add comment to avoid future expanding of sysfs systab
/sys/firmware/efi/systab shows several different values, it breaks sysfs one file one value design. But since there are already userspace tools depend on it eg. kexec-tools so add code comment to alert future expanding of this file. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206095010.24170-4-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index c3eefa126e3b..557a47829d03 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ struct kobject *efi_kobj;
/*
* Let's not leave out systab information that snuck into
* the efivars driver
+ * Note, do not add more fields in systab sysfs file as it breaks sysfs
+ * one value per file rule!
*/
static ssize_t systab_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)