Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap()edaddress is invalid"

[Matt Fleming]

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 10:31 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Ping?
> 
> Would be nice to have testing from Keith as your fix looks more 
> attractive than the plain revert.
> 
> I could queue up the fix blindly and do a double revert if it 
> breaks, but i already strongly depleted my problematic-tree 
> quota for this cycle, so i'd rather have a nice Tested-by tag 
> from Keith ... ;-)

Sorry, I should have been more verbose here. What I was really asking
was whether Keith has had chance to test this patch. A Tested-by tag is
essential - I really don't want to be responsible for a problematic
tree ;-)

> Failing that i guess we'll have to do the revert, and re-try the 
> original commit with your fix merged into it.

The revert is already in Linus' tree as e1ad783b12ec "Revert "x86, efi:
Calling __pa() with an ioremap()ed address is invalid", so at least
we've got some time to get this patch right.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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