[systemd-devel] Mounting efivars / efivarfs

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Greg KH at 09/04/13 00:48 did gyre and gimble:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:02:09AM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Seems on my system, I have to load the module "efivars" before I can
>> mount my efivarfs (mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars)
>>
>> Now, systemd should do this magically but for some reason it doesn't do
>> that.
> 
> You need a newer kernel version that properly exports the efivarfs name
> to userspace, letting mount know what module to load.  The 3.9-rc2
> kernel release should have this change in it, so you can either backport
> the needed patch, or wait for 3.9 to be released.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Thanks Greg, I'll hunt out the appropriate commit. I'm on 3.8.6 here and
I suspect we'll stay on that for the release, so will ask our kernel
maintainer to include the required support.

Cheers

Col

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