On 7 July 2014 22:38, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7 July 2014 22:11, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, 05 Jul, at 08:25:35AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: >>> >>> OK, I’ll leave it to Matt then together with the other EFI patches >>> he’s already queuing. >> >> Thanks guys. >> >> What release are we targetting with this patch? Is it a bug fix for >> something likely to affect people? Have there been reports of users >> actually hitting this issue? >> >> We're at -rc4 now, so there's still time for getting bug fixes to Linus >> but we may start being asked for justification from the tip folks en >> route to Linus. >> >> If it's just a case of improving the error paths, can it wait until >> v3.17? >> > > This fixes a potential panic under buggy firmware, but no reports of > this actual bug are known, so there is no justification for a late > merge for 3.16. > Hey Matt, I was wondering if you're on track to queue up your -next branch for 3.17? If so, could you please include $subject? And if you don't mind, could you squash the following fixup into "efi: efistub: Convert into static library" as well? diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile index cdaedad3afe5..afaeb734295a 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile @@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds := -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET) AFLAGS_head.o := -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET) -CFLAGS_efi-stub.o := -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET) \ - -I$(src)/../../../scripts/dtc/libfdt +CFLAGS_efi-stub.o := -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET) CFLAGS_REMOVE_ftrace.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_insn.o = -pg Much appreciated, Cheers, Ard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
