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| author | Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> | 2016-08-01 15:51:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> | 2016-08-01 15:57:55 -0700 |
| commit | b558f17a13b10761eb6f838e713425b9e83f8a01 (patch) | |
| tree | 425828a423411d6c65e5b18a3330d244eef987b0 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 818aa36ea868ba8f2985f9ca0906fd9cba3e437d (diff) | |
| parent | b05965f284db3e086022f4e318e46cb5bffb1376 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v4.4.16' into android-4.4.y
This is the 4.4.16 stable release
Change-Id: Ibaf7b7e03695e1acebc654a2ca1a4bfcc48fcea4
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
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. |