efi: Add comment to avoid future expanding of sysfs systab
authorDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Wed, 6 Dec 2017 09:50:10 +0000 (09:50 +0000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 6 Dec 2017 18:32:23 +0000 (19:32 +0100)
/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>
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c

index c3eefa126e3b0c9ee549fb1c2e077d1e3d19bfc1..557a47829d03f2b14b0c3b664e1044e7e2cb86bc 100644 (file)
@@ -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)