linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] EFI merge botch fix

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Date:	Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:57:32 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CC:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI merge botch fix

Yes, please send pull requests.

Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org> wrote:

>On 30/04/13 09:47, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> The other problem is that tip:x86/efi also conflicts with current
>-git, as 
>> of v3.9 - due to interaction with an EFI fix tree ...
>> 
>> This is getting ugly pretty fast, so I'd suggest to re-do the merges 
>> cleanly, not by rebasing the tree, but by redoing the first merge in 
>> essence:
>> 
>>   e29c2de5f591 Merge tag 'v3.9-rc8' into efi-for-tip
>> 
>> By correctly merging v3.9-final into f53f292 - making sure the
>changes to 
>> drivers/firmware/efivars.c correctly merge over, and making sure the
>ia64 
>> select does not get lost.
>> 
>> Something like this would do:
>> 
>>   git checkout -b x86-new-efi-branch f53f292
>>   git merge v3.9
>>   < ... resolve all the conflicts ...>
>>   git commit
>> 
>> I can then (non-fast-forward) fetch this new EFI branch as the new 
>> tip:x86/efi.
>
>OK, I re-did the merge against v3.9 as requested and published it as
>'efi-for-tip2'. Would you like me to send a proper pull request if
>that's easier to pull into the tip machinery?
>
>I have also started accumulating fixes against the EFI changes in
>tip/x86/efi. Would you like those as a separate pull request? The fixes
>branch is 'efi-for-tip-fixes' and is based on the above merge branch,
>'efi-for-tip2'. It mainly includes fixes for bugs in the pstore paths
>which Seiji Aguchi found.

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