Re: [PATCH] firmware: ACPI iBFT firmware support on EFI machines

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Wed Jun 10 2015 - 10:25:55 EST


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The iBFT firmware tables can also be specified via ACPI tables
> when using EFI firmware. The 'iscsi_ibft_find' module is only
> for legacy X86 BIOS, so it needs to be skipped for all other
> architectures.

If this is only valid for X86, you probably want to add a dependency
on X86. There are other architectures that use ACPI, notable ia64 and
arm64 in the not distant future.

josh

> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> index 6517132..79204b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ config ISCSI_IBFT_FIND
> config ISCSI_IBFT
> tristate "iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes module"
> select ISCSI_BOOT_SYSFS
> - depends on ISCSI_IBFT_FIND && SCSI && SCSI_LOWLEVEL
> + depends on (ISCSI_IBFT_FIND || ACPI) && SCSI && SCSI_LOWLEVEL
> default n
> help
> This option enables support for detection and exposing of iSCSI
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