On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:30:54PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 11:16 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:09:09AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > 
> > >     efi: Defer freeing boot services memory until after ACPI init
> > > 
> > > to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
> > >     
> > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > > 
> > > The filename of the patch is:
> > >      efi-defer-freeing-boot-services-memory-until-after-acpi-init.patch
> > > and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
> > > 
> > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > > please let <[email protected]> know about it.
> > 
> > Why did this patch go into stable?  It doesn't fix any bugs, and it
> > didn't have any tag indicating that stable should look at it.
> 
> I asked for it to go to stable because it is a pre-requisite for the
> following patch,
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=5189c2a7c7769ee9d037d76c1a7b8550ccf3481c
> 
> which fixes a crash when running a mixed 32/64-bit EFI firmware/kernel.

Ah, OK; makes sense.

- Josh Triplett
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