linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/6] Cleanup efi_enter_virtual

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Date:	Fri, 1 Nov 2013 09:18:25 +0800
From:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, hpa@...or.com,
	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, vgoyal@...hat.com,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, horms@...ge.net.au,
	kexec@...ts.fedoraproject.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/6] Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function

On 10/31/13 at 11:44am, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Dear Mr. Young,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:07:14AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > But Frankly I'd like to see them in list instead even with only small fixes
> > > beacuse in this way there might be more people to review it carefully.
> > 
> > There's another shorcoming for keeping new patches in git is that nobody know
> > when you push it and when is the proper date to pull from your git. I think
> > it's better to use git only for the patches which have already been accepted
> > and is waiting for maintainer to pull.
> 
> thank you for teaching me how to do kernel development!
> 
> The actual and real reason why I didn't send them yet is because I
> didn't want to be that kaffeine-inflated dork who spams the lists every
> other day with a new version of his patches.

I need remind myself about careless patch, I used to do that before :(

> 
> I am running build smoketests now and will send the latest version of
> the patchset later today so don't worry, the world will see them :)

Great, thank you. BTW, I have managed to test original patch set on a
Macboot Air of my friend with usb boot, it works ok.

--
Thanks
Dave
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