[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/2] efi_loader: rewrite README.efi

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Tue Feb 13 06:55:48 UTC 2018



> Am 12.02.2018 um 21:42 schrieb Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
>> On 12 February 2018 at 12:41, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 12.02.2018 um 15:35 schrieb Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
>>> 
>>> Hi Alex,
>>> 
>>>> On 9 February 2018 at 11:55, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 30.01.18 20:03, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>>>> Provide information about
>>>>> 
>>>>> - usage of the bootefi command
>>>>> - overview of UEFI
>>>>> - interaction between U-Boot and EFI drivers
>>>>> 
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> v2
>>>>>     new file
>>>> 
>>>> The patch is very hard to read. Please just make this 2 patches. One
>>>> that removes the old file, one that adds the rewrite.
>>> 
>>> That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Can you not just apply the
>>> patch locally and read it?
>> 
>> That‘s what I did, but I doubt the occasional reviewer does it. He also rewrites the file completely, even changing copyright. So IMHO remove+add is the better way to express what is happening here.
> 
> Then perhaps the changes should be multiple patches? I agree it is
> hard to review this sort of thing. But if you are happy with a
> complete rewrite, then why not add a review tag?

Because I had another ~10 comments inline :).

Alex

> It doesn't much
> matter that others cannot be bothered to review it properly. There is
> some benefit to having a change history, I think.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon



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