Re: [PATCH] efivars: Allow disabling use as a pstore backend

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/07/2013 09:40 AM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> We know that with some firmware implementations writing too much data to
> UEFI variables can lead to bricking machines. Recent changes attempt to
> address this issue, but for some it may still be prudent to avoid
> writing large amounts of data until the solution has been proven on a
> wide variety of hardware.
> 
> Crash dumps or other data from pstore can potentially be a large data
> source. Add a new option, CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE, which can be set to N
> to avoid using efivars as a backend to pstore.

What about a command line option?

> -#ifdef CONFIG_PSTORE
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PSTORE) && defined(CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE)

Redundant.

	-hpa

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