Re: [PATCH 1/3] efi: Introduce *_continue efi_memory_desc iterators

[Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>]

On 06/02/2016 11:29 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 03:36:50PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
>> On Wed, 01 Jun, at 11:43:26AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the heads up. I'll rebase the patches after -rc2 but anyway I
>>> plan to merge them in 4.8 via the arm64 tree, including the patch above
>>> if Matt acks it. So there is enough time to fix the conflicts.
>>
>> I'd really prefer it if you didn't take this series through the arm64
>> tree, unless there are existing dependencies, of course.
>>
>> There were a number of conflicts in 3 different maintainer trees in
>> linux-next before the most recent merge window opened, and extra work
>> was required to sort that out. I want to avoid that in the future, so
>> expect me to be more insistent about keeping EFI patches in the EFI
>> tree than I have been in the past.
>>
>> Do arm64 prerequisites exist for this series? Or are you planning on
>> adding dependencies on top?
>
> I don't know when Jeremy plans to submit his contiguous PTE patches (we
> rejected them on the grounds of unnecessary huge page splitting, hence
> this series). If he's not targeting 4.8, I'm happy for the patches to go
> in via the EFI tree.

I can re-post them again for 4.8. They seem to get simpler every time!