efi: Add misc char driver interface to update EFI firmware
This patch introduces a kernel module to expose a capsule loader interface (misc char device file note) for users to upload capsule binaries. Example: cat firmware.bin > /dev/efi_capsule_loader Any upload error will be returned while doing "cat" through file operation write() function call. Signed-off-by: NKweh, Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> [ Update comments and Kconfig text ] Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Reviewed-by: NBryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie> Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: joeyli <jlee@suse.com> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461614832-17633-30-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.ukSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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