samsung-laptop: Disable on EFI hardware
authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:02:37 +0000 (09:02 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 6 Feb 2013 04:33:51 +0000 (04:33 +0000)
commitaed5dbb761cf5291dc302626957b780f4ff60564
tree89ee0dd10f6232883820544eb97e241134f40143
parent06c73e442edec7cda81193276c72fda1abb96fb0
samsung-laptop: Disable on EFI hardware

commit e0094244e41c4d0c7ad69920681972fc45d8ce34 upstream.

It has been reported that running this driver on some Samsung laptops
with EFI can cause those machines to become bricked as detailed in the
following report,

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

There have also been reports of this driver causing Machine Check
Exceptions on recent EFI-enabled Samsung laptops,

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

So disable it if booting from EFI since this driver relies on
grovelling around in the BIOS memory map which isn't going to work.

Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c