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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c477af086e65..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ - -efivarfs - a (U)EFI variable filesystem - -The efivarfs filesystem was created to address the shortcomings of -using entries in sysfs to maintain EFI variables. The old sysfs EFI -variables code only supported variables of up to 1024 bytes. This -limitation existed in version 0.99 of the EFI specification, but was -removed before any full releases. Since variables can now be larger -than a single page, sysfs isn't the best interface for this. - -Variables can be created, deleted and modified with the efivarfs -filesystem. - -efivarfs is typically mounted like this, - - mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars |