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[v6,16/27] efi: Mention that efi_info_get() is only used in the stub

Message ID 20211217194059.858580-13-sjg@chromium.org
State Superseded
Delegated to: Heinrich Schuchardt
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Series efi: Improvements to U-Boot running on top of UEFI | expand

Commit Message

Simon Glass Dec. 17, 2021, 7:40 p.m. UTC
This provides access to EFI tables after U-Boot has exited boot services.
It is not needed in the app since boot services remain alive and we can
just call them whenever needed.

Add a comment to explain this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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Changes in v6:
- Fix 'stuff' typo in comment
- Update to 'This function' in comment

Changes in v2:
- Fix 'as' typo

 include/efi.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/include/efi.h b/include/efi.h
index ca4afaf524b..0aa07193640 100644
--- a/include/efi.h
+++ b/include/efi.h
@@ -578,6 +578,10 @@  void efi_putc(struct efi_priv *priv, const char ch);
 /**
  * efi_info_get() - get an entry from an EFI table
  *
+ * This function is called from U-Boot proper to read information set up by the
+ * EFI stub. It can only be used when running from the EFI stub, not when U-Boot
+ * is running as an app.
+ *
  * @type:	Entry type to search for
  * @datap:	Returns pointer to entry data
  * @sizep:	Returns pointer to entry size