linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: use core efi=debug instead of uefi

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Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:24:55 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, matt.fleming@...el.com,
	ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, msalter@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: use core efi=debug instead of uefi_debug
 command line parameter

On Wed, 26 Aug, at 02:24:57PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> Now that we have an efi=debug command line option in the core code, use
> this instead of the arm64-specific uefi_debug option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/arm/uefi.txt |  2 --
>  arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c    | 19 +++++--------------
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Are there no concerns with backwards-compatibility here? I expected
this patch to internally convert uefi_debug to efi=debug if old boot
loaders, kernel config, etc specify it.

Is that something that can be safely ignored?

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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