Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes

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On Mon, 02 Mar, at 02:24:10PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Pulled, thanks Matt!
> 
> For future reference, plase leave out unreadable commit messages like 
> this:
> 
>   While adding support loading kernel and initrd above 4G to grub2 in 
>   legacy mode, I was referring to efi_high_alloc(). That will allocate 
>   buffer for kernel and then initrd, and initrd will use kernel buffer 
>   start as limit.
> 
>   During testing found two buffers will be overlapped when initrd size 
>   is very big like 400M.
> 
> I pulled it, because you do explain the commit in the second half of 
> the changelog, in parentheses - but instead of forcing readers through 
> the crappy part, please just drop the crappy explanation and fix it 
> up, or require your contributors to submit proper changelogs. (Yinghai 
> Lu is a repeat offender in that area.)

Noted, I'll be sure to do this in the future. Thanks Ingo!

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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