From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] efi: Introduce EFI bootloader control driver Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:53:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20160329125345.GD3625@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <1458295910-26557-1-git-send-email-daniel.baluta@intel.com> <20160318161505.GU2619@codeblueprint.co.uk> <1458328697.16385.21.camel@intel.com> <20160324144741.GA4328@codeblueprint.co.uk> <1458836156.14677.9.camel@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1458836156.14677.9.camel-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Stanacar, Stefan" Cc: "Baluta, Daniel" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "dvhart-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org" , "Gumbel, Matthew K" , "Purdila, Octavian" , "linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "Abbas, Mohamed" , "Musca, Constantin" List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 24 Mar, at 04:15:56PM, Stanacar, Stefan wrote: > > Ok, that's funny somehow... I wouldn't be surprised if I'd find 3 more > variations of the same driver in different vendor trees :(. Right. And that does add weight to getting a version merged upstream; to discourage people carrying their own. > I'll ping the author of the patch, thanks! I haven't reviewed the patch in detail, but it did look like the correct general approach.