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| author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2016-03-08 09:49:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2016-03-08 09:49:43 (GMT) |
| commit | 56d94d70398f0fbb1863a03a145db1a86f009a71 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e52dc537f8f8359c70b66f5000192bb280b41b9 /Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | |
| parent | bb63f726f98bec032c7322a9c36eb4167307d856 (diff) | |
| parent | fc4f000bf8c0cbf38f44de6bd5e225574e572ed4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-56d94d70398f0fbb1863a03a145db1a86f009a71.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'topic/hda' into for-next
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt index c477af0..686a64b 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. |