Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Mon Mar 02 2015 - 08:35:36 EST


On Mon, 02 Mar, at 02:24:10PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Pulled, thanks Matt!
>
> For future reference, plase leave out unreadable commit messages like
> this:
>
> While adding support loading kernel and initrd above 4G to grub2 in
> legacy mode, I was referring to efi_high_alloc(). That will allocate
> buffer for kernel and then initrd, and initrd will use kernel buffer
> start as limit.
>
> During testing found two buffers will be overlapped when initrd size
> is very big like 400M.
>
> I pulled it, because you do explain the commit in the second half of
> the changelog, in parentheses - but instead of forcing readers through
> the crappy part, please just drop the crappy explanation and fix it
> up, or require your contributors to submit proper changelogs. (Yinghai
> Lu is a repeat offender in that area.)

Noted, I'll be sure to do this in the future. Thanks Ingo!

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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