Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755991AbcC2Mxu (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:53:50 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]:35142 "EHLO mail-wm0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755858AbcC2Mxs (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:53:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:53:45 +0100 From: Matt Fleming To: "Stanacar, Stefan" Cc: "Baluta, Daniel" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "dvhart@infradead.org" , "Gumbel, Matthew K" , "Purdila, Octavian" , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , "Abbas, Mohamed" , "Musca, Constantin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] efi: Introduce EFI bootloader control driver Message-ID: <20160329125345.GD3625@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <1458295910-26557-1-git-send-email-daniel.baluta@intel.com> <20160318161505.GU2619@codeblueprint.co.uk> <1458328697.16385.21.camel@intel.com> <20160324144741.GA4328@codeblueprint.co.uk> <1458836156.14677.9.camel@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1458836156.14677.9.camel@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24+41 (02bc14ed1569) (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 443 Lines: 12 On Thu, 24 Mar, at 04:15:56PM, Stanacar, Stefan wrote: > > Ok, that's funny somehow... I wouldn't be surprised if I'd find 3 more > variations of the same driver in different vendor trees :(. Right. And that does add weight to getting a version merged upstream; to discourage people carrying their own. > I'll ping the author of the patch, thanks! I haven't reviewed the patch in detail, but it did look like the correct general approach.