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| From | Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> |
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/xen/efi: Init only efi struct members used by Xen |
| Date | Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:30:01 +0200 |
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On 06/22/2017 06:51 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Current approach, wholesale efi struct initialization from efi_xen, is not > good. Usually if new member is defined then it is properly initialized in > drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c but not in arch/x86/xen/efi.c. As I saw it happened > a few times until now. So, let's initialize only efi struct members used by > Xen to avoid such issues in the future. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> > Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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[PATCH v2 0/2] xen/efi: Fixes Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> - 2017-06-22 13:00 +0200
[PATCH v2 2/2] x86/xen/efi: Init only efi struct members used by Xen Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> - 2017-06-22 13:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/xen/efi: Init only efi struct members used by Xen Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-06-22 21:30 +0200
[tip:efi/core] x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen tip-bot for Daniel Kiper <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-06-23 16:10 +0200
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