[Mageia-dev] Trouble mounting EFI vars on latest 3.8.1

[Thomas Backlund]

Colin Guthrie skrev 14.3.2013 11:10:
> Hi,
>
> With kernel 3.8.1 I seem to be having trouble mounting efivarfs:
>
> [root at jimmy ~]# mount -t efivarfs efivarfs
> /sys/firmware/efi/efivarsmount: mount efivarfs on
> /sys/firmware/efi/efivars failed: Cannot allocate memory
>
>
> Googleing around it looks like this problem:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg01501.html
> as I do have variables named like dump-type*.
>
> It works fine with 3.8.0.
>
> The above link seems to mention 3.9.x rather than 3.8.x, but I'm
> wondering if the problematic patch was merged into 3.8.1 too.
>
> Certainly the fix seems to be listed in the 3.8.3 review:
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1693026?do=post_view_threaded
>


Yep.

3.8.3 should be out tonight or tomorrow.

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Thomas