[raring] UEFI anti-bricking

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 16:33 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> Hi Matthew-
> 
> We (Ubuntu) are considering pulling this directly into our Ubuntu Raring
> (3.8) kernel:
> 
>         commit f8b8404337de4e2466e2e1139ea68b1f8295974f
>         Author: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett at nebula.com>
>         Date:   Sat Jun 1 16:06:20 2013 -0400
>         
>             Modify UEFI anti-bricking code
> 
> And here's the stack of framework patches we needed to cherry-pick in to
> support it.  If you're inclined, we'd appreciate your sanity check of
> this patch set:
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=kamal/ubuntu-raring.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/uefi-anti-bricking-raring

Looks plausible - if you wanted you could probably drop a couple of
those and just go straight to the endpoint (the final patch reverted
most of the previous couple), but I think keeping the original history
is reasonable.

> Also, as an early FYI, the same patch set will be applied to my next
> 3.8.y.z mainline extended stable release; Luis Henriques is preparing a
> different backport set for 3.5.y.z stable.  You'll be notified of those
> when they get queued up for stable (barring any early objections now).

Sounds good. Thanks for letting me know!

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org