Re: [PATCH] efi: pstore: Allow dynamic initialization based on module parameter

["Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>]

On 03/01/2024 15:40, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> The efi-pstore module parameter "pstore_disable" warrants that users
> are able to deactivate such backend. There is also a Kconfig option
> for the default value of this parameter. It was originally added due
> to some bad UEFI FW implementations that could break with many variables
> written.
> 
> Some distros (such as Arch Linux) set this in their config file still
> nowadays. And once it is set, even being a writable module parameter,
> there is effectively no way to make use of efi-pstore anymore.
> If "pstore_disable" is set to true, the init function of the module exits
> early and is never called again after the initcall processing.
> 
> Let's switch this module parameter to have a callback and perform the
> pstore backend registration again each time it's set from Y->N (and
> vice-versa). With this, the writable nature of the parameter starts to
> make sense, given that users now can switch back to using efi-pstore
> or not during runtime by writing into it.

Hi folks, a friendly ping - any comments on this one, suggestions?
Thanks in advance,


Guilherme