From e09b41010ba33a20a87472ee821fa407a5b8da36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: José Pekkarinen Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:41:07 +0300 Subject: These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit During the rebasing, the following patch collided: Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85). Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the source already. Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769 Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen --- kernel/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt') diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt b/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt index c477af086..686a64bba 100644 --- a/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt +++ b/kernel/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. -- cgit 1.2.3-korg