Re: [PATCH] efi: Make EFI_VARS_PSTORE depend on EFIVAR_FS

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2026, at 19:12, Theodore Tucker wrote:
> The efivars backend to pstore will not register if the efivarfs is
> not available. The efivars sysfs interface was removed in Linux 6.0,
> meaning efivarfs is now the only way pstore can write into EFI
> variables. Making the dependency on the efivarfs explicit removes
> a stumbling block when configuring a kernel with pstore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Tucker <theodore@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>

Applied, thanks.

> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> index 29e0729299f5..8dfd21e7a8e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config EFI_ESRT
> 
>  config EFI_VARS_PSTORE
>  	tristate "Register efivars backend for pstore"
> -	depends on PSTORE
> +	depends on PSTORE && EFIVAR_FS
>  	select UCS2_STRING
>  	default y
>  	help
> -- 
> 2.47.3