[Quantal][Pull Request] SAUCE: UBUNTU: (upstream) Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

[Luis Henriques]

Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> writes:

> On 07/09/2013 10:03 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
>> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199401
>> 
>> This set of patches will bring upstream commit f8b8404 "Modify UEFI
>> anti-bricking code" into the Quantal kernel.  All the required
>> dependencies have also been pulled in, along with a fix to a buffer
>> memory allocation.
>> 
>> Most of the backports have been based on Ben Hutchings' backports to
>> upstream 3.2 kernel.
>> 
>> A good amount of testing has already done by Colin on 5 different UEFI
>> systems, but some more testing/review is probably required.
>> 
>
> I'm curious why you aren't running this through 3.5.y stable ?

The plan is to include them in 3.5.y stable as well.  We just wanted
to make sure these patches wouldn't hit Quantal only on the SRU cycle
immediately before the next point release.

Cheers,
-- 
Luis