Hi Greg, These are the part VI commits. For the 9 commits, - 4 commits were marked for stable but can't be applied cleanly to 3.4.x. - 5 commits have no stable tag. They should be applied to 3.4.x. There are 2 commits that need some adjustments. The following patches are the backports. Please cherry-pick these commits from 3.2.x: a1e16e8184d4 efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend f9c0efa2e87f efivars: Fix check for CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE and then apply the 2 backports first to avoid some conflicts: [PATCH 3.4 1/2] efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs [PATCH 3.4 2/2] x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code and then pick the rest commits from 3.2.x: b12bcd7b3fe0 x86,efi: Check max_size only if it is non-zero. c5ba30a73ebc efi: Export efi_query_variable_store() for efivars.ko 2a068400fcef x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter 134c3faa909c Modify UEFI anti-bricking code b35b16d2be61 x86/efi: Fix dummy variable buffer allocation -- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++ arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 9 ++++ drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------- include/linux/efi.h | 12 ++++- 5 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) -- 1.8.2.2 -- 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