EFI fixes for v3.10

Hi guys,

There's a few bug fixes sitting in the EFI urgent branch. Please consider pulling.

The following changes since commit ca0ba26fbbd2d81c43085df49ce0abfe34535a90:

efivars: Fix check for CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE (2013-03-22 20:08:01 +0000)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git urgent

for you to fetch changes up to 8c58bf3eec3b8fc8162fe557e9361891c20758f2:

x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter (2013-04-17 15:13:38 +0100)

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Matt Fleming (1):
x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code

Matthew Garrett (3):
Move utf16 functions to kernel core and rename
efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code
efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used space

Richard Weinberger (2):
x86,efi: Check max_size only if it is non-zero. x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter

Sergey Vlasov (2):
x86/Kconfig: Make EFI select UCS2_STRING
efi: Export efi_query_variable_store() for efivars.ko

 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt   |   6 ++
 arch/x86/Kconfig                      |   1 +
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c      |  47 ++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h            |   7 ++
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h |   1 +
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c           | 168 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/firmware/Kconfig              |   1 +
 drivers/firmware/efivars.c            |  98 +++++---------------
 include/linux/efi.h                   |   9 +-
 include/linux/ucs2_string.h           |  14 +++
 lib/Kconfig                           |   3 +
 lib/Makefile                          |   2 +
 lib/ucs2_string.c                     |  51 +++++++++++
 13 files changed, 325 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/ucs2_string.h
 create mode 100644 lib/ucs2_string.c

Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

We are *post -rc7* and days away from release.

I can't push this to Linus without a detailed description of what this is and why we need it now.

Yes, I can wing it, but I shouldn't *have to* especially not when half out of my gourd...

-hpa

OK, I'll pull this for now, but this *really* need to be an automatic quirk of some sort, especially when there is a named board in the mix...

-hpa