From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 13:35:14 +0000 Message-ID: <20150302133514.GE24476@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <20150302125104.GC24476@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20150302132410.GA4300@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150302132410.GA4300@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ivan Khoronzhuk , Yinghai Lu , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 02 Mar, at 02:24:10PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Pulled, thanks Matt! > > For future reference, plase leave out unreadable commit messages like > this: > > While adding support loading kernel and initrd above 4G to grub2 in > legacy mode, I was referring to efi_high_alloc(). That will allocate > buffer for kernel and then initrd, and initrd will use kernel buffer > start as limit. > > During testing found two buffers will be overlapped when initrd size > is very big like 400M. > > I pulled it, because you do explain the commit in the second half of > the changelog, in parentheses - but instead of forcing readers through > the crappy part, please just drop the crappy explanation and fix it > up, or require your contributors to submit proper changelogs. (Yinghai > Lu is a repeat offender in that area.) Noted, I'll be sure to do this in the future. Thanks Ingo! -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center