[PATCH 00/10] arm64 EFI patches for 3.19

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Oct 28 05:38:33 PDT 2014


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 05:45:27PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 13:03 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, I was struggling a bit with that. I think the agreement was that
> > everything EFI related goes through Matt's tree, but I don't think
> > that necessarily makes sense for patches that only touch arch/arm64,
> > unless there are interdependencies with the generic code.
> > 
> > From this series, only patches #7 and #8 need to go through Matt's
> > tree, and even if #9 and #10 are also related to SMBIOS, they are in
> > fact orthogonal to #7 and #8, so those can still go through the arm64
> > tree without any merge order issues later on.
> > 
> > @Matt: any thoughts?
> 
> In this case, if it makes things easier for you folks in terms of
> dependencies to take this *all* through the arm64 tree, that seems
> sensible to me.

Thanks, Matt. I won't merge anything that touches files outside of
arch/arm64 without your ack, but then I'll be happy to take this lot via
the arm64 tree.

Will



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