From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.windriver.com ([147.11.146.13]:65360 "EHLO mail1.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750909AbbGaBXP (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:23:15 -0400 Message-ID: <55BACDD9.6020505@windriver.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:22:33 +0800 From: fupan MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH , Matt Fleming CC: , , , Luis Henriques , Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.10 ~ 3.14] efi: fix the efi 32bit boot failed problem References: <1438078879-24705-1-git-send-email-fupan.li@windriver.com> <20150730150428.GJ2725@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20150730163102.GA19943@kroah.com> <20150730164544.GL2725@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20150730165943.GD5515@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20150730165943.GD5515@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/31/2015 12:59 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 05:45:44PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jul, at 09:31:02AM, Greg KH wrote: >>> Why isn't this an issue in newer kernel releases? Did this already get >>> fixed by some other patch? If so, why can't we just take that patch? >>> If not, why not? >> >> The commit 35d5134b7d5a ("x86/efi: Correct EFI boot stub use of >> code32_start") only exists in the stable trees in that form because >> there was quite a lot of churn in that area in Linus tree that didn't >> get backported. >> >> So the code in Linus' tree never looked like the code in the stable does >> right now. >> >>> I _REALLY_ don't like taking patches that are not already in Linus's >>> tree, as it almost always turns out to be the wrong solution. >> Yeah, I think this issue verifies that. > Ugh, what a mess. Ok, if you get something that works and is in a > format that I can apply it, please resend it properly so that we can do > so. Hi, Matt Will you take care of this patch or I send a V2? Thanks! Fupan > > thanks, > > greg k-h > >