On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 04:49:12PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb, at 04:41:59PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 04:31:43PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: > > > Stable folks, > > > > > > This is a backport of the efivarfs anti-bricking changes [1] for > > > stable. Some fixing up was required because the series doesn't > > > include the ucs2 cleanups that are in Linus' tree since they're not > > > really stable material. > > > > What stable tree(s) do you want these applied to? > > Probably as far as back v3.10, if possible. That was when efivarfs > support was merged and had we known about this issue then, we would > have had this immutable feature from day one. > > > And if at all possible, I'd really prefer to take the original patches, > > additional things and all, for stable kernels, as 95%[1] of the time > > that we take "different" ones, there are bugs. > > OK, gotcha. > > > It also makes things easier for us to take additional changes later on > > for other commits in the same area. So can we just take the originals > > please? > > Sure, if that's what you'd prefer that's no problem. Would you like me > to send a v2 series containing all the patches? Yes, that would be great, or just a list of git commit ids if they all apply just fine without any changes needed. thanks, greg k-h -- 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