Re: [GIT PULL] x86/uapi for 3.8

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf
<markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So I wonder if the following simple patch might be enough?
> It fixes the issue for me at least.

Not enough.

It presumably fixes the issue for you by hiding the problem. But if
you were to boot a kernel with EFI support, it would re-surface.
Including in any distro kernel that obviously will include EFI support
in order to handle the generic case.

I've reverted the commit.

              Linus
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