From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/2] disable_hest quirk on HP m400 with bad UEFI firmwware Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:46:18 +0100 Message-ID: <1530607578.9841.126.camel@debian.org> References: <20180628100656.10692-1-james.morse@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Ard Biesheuvel , Geoff Levand Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi , Riku Voipio , Sudeep Holla , ACPI Devel Maling List , James Morse , Hanjun Guo , Mark Salter , linux-arm-kernel List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 22:56 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > But that does not make it an upstream problem. The fact that this is > an EOL platform of which only a couple of hundred are in circulation, > combined with the fact that there is a trivial workaround available > (the command line option) makes it a non-issue in my opinion, > especially given the fact that not a single distro ships pristine > mainline kernels, and so they can carry the quirk themselves. I think that's rather unfortunate given that many distros (Debian included, AIUI Fedora too, I'm sure others) try to ship kernels as close to mainline as possible and the general steer from the kernel community to try and do so whenever possible, to track stable releases early and often etc. Ian.