Re: [GIT PULL 0/7] EFI fixes for v5.7

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 16:04, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ard,
>
> Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 15:40, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 03:06:20PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> > Ping?
> >>
> >> Did you want to make your tags unique from the next pull request onwards
> >> and I were supposed to pull this one as is?
> >
> > What usually happens is that Ingo applies the patches piecemeal,
> > ignoring the tag altogether, so without any coordination between you
> > as x86 maintainers or communication back to me, that is what i was
> > expecting to happen this time as well.
> >
> > Note that I have another PR pending since two weeks ago [0].
> >
> > So if you want to start dealing with the EFI trees in a different way
> > from now on, that is perfectly fine with me, but please align with
> > Ingo and Thomas first.
>
> /me dons managerial hat
>
> Yes, please. Your pull request really do not need any special handling.
>
> Please add a unique signed tag to each pull request and stick the
> description, e.g.
>
>  " EFI fixes for v5.7-rcX:
>    - fix EFI framebuffer earlycon for wide fonts
>    - avoid filling screen_info with garbage...."
>
> into the tag which gives us the merge commit message automagically.
>

Sure.

In that case, please pull these changes from

efi-fixes-for-v5.7-rc6

instead, and disregard the PR for v5.8. I will respin that, include
some patches that came in in the mean time, and tag it in the correct
way before resending the PR.