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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 9 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. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 51bbc77d5d16..4e945f396e22 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3812,6 +3812,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. sector if the number is odd); i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this device); + j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns + command, uas only); l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and unlock ejectable media); m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more |