Re: [RESEND][PATCH]efi: initialize efi.runtime_version to makequery_variable_info/update_capsule workable

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Thu Aug 16 2012 - 03:53:47 EST


On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 18:37 +0000, Seiji Aguchi wrote:
> A value of efi.runtime_version is checked before calling
> update_capsule()/query_variable_info() as follows.
> But it isn't initialized anywhere.
> <snip>
> static efi_status_t virt_efi_query_variable_info(u32 attr,
> u64 *storage_space,
> u64 *remaining_space,
> u64 *max_variable_size) {
> if (efi.runtime_version < EFI_2_00_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION)
> return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
> <snip>
>
> This patch initializes a value of efi.runtime_version at boot time.
>
> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Thanks, I picked this up just so it doesn't get lost. It will probably
go to Linus via Peter Anvin.

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