On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:27:48AM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote: > On 04/17/2013 09:28 PM, Luis Henriques wrote: > > 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.) > > Unfortunately yes. > > The whole series are mostly solving pstore bugs and pstore trashing > firmware. If you want to prevent more bricking from happening asap, > a temporary choice is to allow disabling efi pstore altogether with these: > > ed9dc8ce7a1c8115dba9483a9b51df8b63a2e0ef efivars: Allow disabling use as a pstore backend > ec0971ba5372a4dfa753f232449d23a8fd98490e efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend > ca0ba26fbbd2d81c43085df49ce0abfe34535a90 efivars: Fix check for CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE Thanks a lot for your help. I'll just pick these and queue them for 3.5.y. 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