Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] efi: Remove global 'memmap'

2016-04-14 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On 14 April 2016 at 14:13, Matt Fleming wrote: > Abolish the poorly named EFI memory map, 'memmap'. It is shadowed by a > bunch of local definitions in various files and having two ways to > access the EFI memory map ('efi.memmap' vs 'memmap') is rather > confusing. > > Furthermore, ia64 doesn't e

[PATCH v2 2/2] efi: Remove global 'memmap'

2016-04-14 Thread Matt Fleming
Abolish the poorly named EFI memory map, 'memmap'. It is shadowed by a bunch of local definitions in various files and having two ways to access the EFI memory map ('efi.memmap' vs 'memmap') is rather confusing. Furthermore, ia64 doesn't even provide this global object, which has caused issues whe