On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 08:13:57PM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote: > On 04/17/2013 07:56 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:37:43PM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote: > >>On 04/16/2013 06:33 PM, Luis Henriques wrote: > >>>68d929862e29a8b52a7f2f2f86a0600423b093cd efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables > >> > >>This prevents a bricking issue for some Samsung devices but causes > >>regression on many other machines. > >> > >>https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55471 > >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947142 > >>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/1078 > >>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/47150 > >> > >>This patchset will fix it again: > >> > >>http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/1081 > > > >Thanks for the pointer. I note that in that thread you yourself imply > >there are still issues after applying them? Was that accurate, is there > >yet further patches needed? > > I just find that issue. Didn't see that when writing the above. > > Earlier I was testing on a different machine and the result was > good. I guess the patch still needs some more testing. Thanks Lingzhu. So, I guess you would recommend me to drop the whole series until we have this patchset accepted, tested and back-ported for 3.5, correct? (I tried to isolate the one you pointed out, but I'm afraid there are too many dependencies between them to drop a single patch.) Cheers, -- Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html