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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-02-29 09:42:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-02-29 09:42:07 +0100 |
| commit | 6aa447bcbb444cd1b738613a20627f288d631665 (patch) | |
| tree | 62030bb14be0006248181305ac1fe377a99e5b65 /Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | |
| parent | abedf8e2419fb873d919dd74de2e84b510259339 (diff) | |
| parent | 48be3a67da7413d62e5efbcf2c73a9dddf61fb96 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6aa447bcbb444cd1b738613a20627f288d631665.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes before applying new changes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt index c477af086e65..686a64bba775 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt @@ -14,3 +14,10 @@ filesystem. efivarfs is typically mounted like this, mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars + +Due to the presence of numerous firmware bugs where removing non-standard +UEFI variables causes the system firmware to fail to POST, efivarfs +files that are not well-known standardized variables are created +as immutable files. This doesn't prevent removal - "chattr -i" will work - +but it does prevent this kind of failure from being accomplished +accidentally. |