Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/1] EDK2 firmware patches

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 15:11, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> On 8/5/19 3:13 PM, Michal Prívozník wrote:
> > On 8/3/19 12:22 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 09:26, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The following changes since commit 
> >>> 9bcf2dfa163f67b0fec6ee0fe88ad5dc5d69dc59:
> >>>
> >>>   Merge remote-tracking branch 
> >>> 'remotes/elmarco/tags/slirp-CVE-2019-14378-pull-request' into staging 
> >>> (2019-08-02 13:06:03 +0100)
> >>>
> >>> are available in the Git repository at:
> >>>
> >>>   https://gitlab.com/philmd/qemu.git tags/edk2-next-20190803
> >>>
> >>> for you to fetch changes up to 177cd674d6203d3c1a98e170ea56c5a904ac4ce8:
> >>>
> >>>   Makefile: remove DESTDIR from firmware file content (2019-08-03 
> >>> 09:52:32 +0200)
> >>>
> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> A harmless build-sys patch that fixes a regression affecting Linux
> >>> distributions packaging QEMU.
> >>>
> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Olaf Hering (1):
> >>>   Makefile: remove DESTDIR from firmware file content
> >>
> >> Is this pullreq intended for 4.1 ?
>
> Sorry, I was not sure how to comment on the pullreq cover (everything
> between the '---' lines get include in the merge commit description).

Depends on your workflow. For me my pull-request-creation
script creates a bunch of files which will be the emails
to be sent out, and I can manually edit the 'cover letter'
email before sending everything.

> This fix a regression introduced during the current development cycle.
> Already 3 different distributions hit this issue and complained (Suse,
> ArchLinux and Fedora).
> This is not a critical/security issue and distributions can easily
> backport this patch, but since there is a RC4 planned, it would be nice
> regarding distributors to fix this if possible.

OK, sounds good -- I just wanted to check. I've pushed the
pullreq to master.

thanks
-- PMM