On 7 July 2014 22:11, Matt Fleming <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 05 Jul, at 08:25:35AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> >> OK, I’ll leave it to Matt then together with the other EFI patches >> he’s already queuing. > > Thanks guys. > > What release are we targetting with this patch? Is it a bug fix for > something likely to affect people? Have there been reports of users > actually hitting this issue? > > We're at -rc4 now, so there's still time for getting bug fixes to Linus > but we may start being asked for justification from the tip folks en > route to Linus. > > If it's just a case of improving the error paths, can it wait until > v3.17? >
This fixes a potential panic under buggy firmware, but no reports of this actual bug are known, so there is no justification for a late merge for 3.16. Thanks, Ard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
