Patchwork [Raring] UBUNTU: SAUCE: samsung-laptop: disable in UEFI mode

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Submitter Colin King
Date Dec. 19, 2012, 10:08 p.m.
Message ID <1355954898-15402-5-git-send-email-colin.king@canonical.com>
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Permalink /patch/207532/
State New
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Colin King - Dec. 19, 2012, 10:08 p.m.
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1040557

Disable this driver if we've booted in UEFI mode as some Samsungs
seem to get bricked and are rendered unbootable when this driver
tries to poke around the BIOS controls when in UEFI.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
index dd90d15..215e5f6 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <acpi/video.h>
+#include <linux/efi.h>
 
 /*
  * This driver is needed because a number of Samsung laptops do not hook
@@ -1534,6 +1535,9 @@  static int __init samsung_init(void)
 	struct samsung_laptop *samsung;
 	int ret;
 
+	if (efi_enabled)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	quirks = &samsung_unknown;
 	if (!force && !dmi_check_system(samsung_dmi_table))
 		return -ENODEV;