Re: [GIT PULL] x86/uapi for 3.8

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/15/2012 01:06 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Right... we'll work on fixing it properly.

	-hpa


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