samsung-laptop: Disable on EFI hardware
authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:02:37 +0000 (09:02 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:48:54 +0000 (10:48 -0800)
commit7f8d73f9e71d58187f42d26088578be5d2d70859
tree65d9bcfbe2afeea8c7370a582caf913e302cf308
parent739230186fa9d6999f88c53f0cb6d07ed4234fb0
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.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c