Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] virt: efi_secret: Transition to the faux device interface

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 01:15:38PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 06:10:41PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 18:02, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The EFI secret area driver does not require the creation of a platform
> > > device. Originally, this approach was chosen for simplicity when the
> > > driver was first implemented.
> > >
> > > With the introduction of the lightweight faux device interface, we now
> > > have a more appropriate alternative. Migrate the driver to utilize the
> > > faux bus, given that the platform device it previously created was not
> > > a real one anyway. This will simplify the code, reducing its footprint
> > > while maintaining functionality.
> > >
> > > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> > 
> > So how is module autoload supposed to work with this driver?
> > 
> 
> IIUC, you are right. It doesn't work. I got carried away how efi_pstore was
> autoloaded in Ubuntu even without alias or platform/faux device creation. I
> don't know how yet but that works. This modules doesn't.
> 
> So we may have to retain platform device/driver for autoloading reasons ?

If that's required, yes.