[patch 3/6] Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function

[Dave Young]

On 10/28/13 at 03:58pm, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:24:58PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > I use linus tree, git pull Matt's efi-next tree, then apply your 12
> > patches and my patches. I applied your previous 11 patches + the last
> > update patch 12/12, but the last one does not apply, I manually shift
> > a hunk to make it apply.
> 
> Nope, still doesn't apply.
> 
> patch -p1 --dry-run -i ~/efi/dy/03-efi-enter-virtual-mode-cleanup.patch 
> checking file arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 788 (offset -1 lines).
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 821 (offset -1 lines).
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 853.
> 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED
> 
> and this time I took your patches from here: https://people.redhat.com/ruyang/kexec-efi/for-bp/kernel-patches/
> 
> What I did is:
> 
> 1. I took Linus' tree from today
> 
> 2. Merged the 'next' branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git. Mind
> you, not the 'efi-next' tag!

I used the above tree origin/next branch

> 
> 3. Then I merged the 'efi' branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp.git ontop.

I used the patches from mailbox directly.
Fixed an conflict and merge them one by one.

> It gave a simple merge conflict which is trivial to resolve:
> http://paste.debian.net/62579/

Looks like I can not access above link.

> 
> Here I started applying your patches and the 3rd one still fails.
> 

It's strange to me. There must be something wrong in the steps
But sorry, it's time to sleep for me, will track this tommrrow.

Thanks
Dave