linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 03/10] firmware: Rename FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK to FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK

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Message-ID: <1107490b-0290-5b65-c392-84de0d9dbe0e@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:41:59 +0100
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
        Dave Olsthoorn <dave@...aar.me>, x86@...nel.org,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 03/10] firmware: Rename FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK to
 FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK_SYSFS

Hi,

On 3/20/20 3:02 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 02:56:23PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On 3/18/20 2:27 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:16:48AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 1/24/20 9:57 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 05:35:47PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>> This is a preparation patch for adding a new platform fallback mechanism,
>>>>>> which will have its own enable/disable FW_OPT_xxx option.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note this also fixes a typo in one of the re-wordwrapped comments:
>>>>>> enfoce -> enforce.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've taken this in my tree for now in a quest to try to get others to
>>>>> pay attention to this series...
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> As mentioned before I believe that this series is ready for merging now.
>>>>
>>>> Andy Lutomirski had one last change request for v12 of the second
>>>> patch in the series, specifically to replace the loop searching for
>>>> the prefix with a memem, but the kernel does not have memmem.
>>>>
>>>> Andy, are you ok with v12 as is, given that we don't have memmem ?
>>>>
>>>> Assuming Andy is ok with v12 as is, then to merge this we need
>>>> to probably wait for 5.6-rc1 and then have the x86/efi folks do
>>>> an immutable branch with the first 2 patches of the series.
>>>
>>> Did this every happen?  Or do I need to dump this all into my tree?
>>
>> Ard has done a immutable branch with just the 2 patches:
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git/tag/?h=stable-shared-branch-for-driver-tree
>>
>> I did not see any mails about this being pulled / merged, but I just
>> checked and this has landed in the tip tree 10 days ago:
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/log/include/linux/efi.h?h=efi/core
>>
>> So if you merge the stable-shared-branch-for-driver-tree tag and then
>> merge patches 3-8 of this series (or rather 4-8 since you already
>> merged 3 IIRC) that would be great.
> 
> Ok, I've merged the above branch with just the two patches, and the rest
> of yours now, 

Great, thank you!

> sorry this took so long.

No problem, I'm quite happy this is queued for 5.7 now, I was
afraid it was going to slip to 5.8.

Regards,

Hans