Re: [PATCH 09/13] efi/arm64: Check for h/w support before booting a >4 KB granule kernel

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Mon Mar 07 2016 - 06:05:57 EST


On 7 March 2016 at 18:02, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Mar, at 04:35:32AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> This patch turned up in -next with 'granule' replaced with 'granular',
>> both in the commit log and in the patch itself. The term 'granule' is
>> part of the idiom used by the ARM Architecture Reference Manual, and
>> so changing it silently to 'granular' is not entirely appropriate here
>> (although harmless in practice, obviously). In general, I would
>> appreciate it if in the future, such changes were not made silently
>> somewhere in the merge pipeline.
>
> Sorry about this Ard. I'll make sure this doesn't happen again in
> future.
>

Thanks

> Ingo, is there any chance we can fixup this patch in-place and revert
> back to the original wording before it gets to Linus' during the merge
> window?

To be honest, I don't care deeply about the commit log, as long as the
code changes are reverted.

Thanks,
Ard.