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[3/3] efi: add comment to avoid future expanding of sysfs systab

Message ID 20171206095010.24170-4-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
State New
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Series EFI fixes for v4.15 | expand

Commit Message

Ard Biesheuvel Dec. 6, 2017, 9:50 a.m. UTC
From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>


/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>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

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2.11.0

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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)