Re: [PATCH] efivars: Allow disabling use as a pstore backend

[Seth Forshee]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:17:29PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/07/2013 02:15 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What about a command line option?
> >>
> >> That could be done. I'm assuming you want this instead of a config
> >> option, defaulted to on?
> >>
> >> How would you feel about a config option for the default value of the
> >> command line option? I intend to default this to off in Ubuntu for a
> >> while as a colleague's machine was recently bricked on two different
> >> occasions after the kernel oopsed. The config option would simplify
> >> things a bit for us, though we could always carry a patch changing the
> >> default value.
> > 
> > Not sure why a command line option would be a more natural solution to
> > this problem? The original patch looked fine to me. All other pstore
> > backends are guarded by Kconfig options.
> > 
> > Though I could see an argument for a kernel parameter to turn off the
> > EFI pstore backend code, even if it's compiled into the kernel. But that
> > would be better as an additional patch.
> > 
> 
> That way it can be enabled if needed, without the user having to build
> their own kernel.

Here's a patch that does the command line option. I'm happy with either
one.