From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.11727.1605803732153009872 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:35:32 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: arm.com, ip: 217.140.110.172, mailfrom: ard.biesheuvel@arm.com) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB6D1478; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:35:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.81] (unknown [172.31.20.19]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 49C363F719; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:35:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v9 00/13] Add the VariablePolicy feature To: Bret Barkelew , "devel@edk2.groups.io" , Bret Barkelew Cc: Bret Barkelew , "Yao, Jiewen" , Dandan Bi , Jian J Wang , Hao A Wu , Liming Gao , Jordan Justen , Laszlo Ersek , Andrew Fish , "Ni, Ray" References: <0c1ea26d-e7f2-11d7-b7d1-66cd5def51b3@arm.com> <345CC9C5-CCDB-4F76-A636-238B116DE217@gmail.com> <8dbfbe5a-3346-5df9-d2da-668a94b45e32@arm.com> <1648F558ACA0C0F8.8629@groups.io> From: "Ard Biesheuvel" Message-ID: <36cc776e-172d-de03-2378-23f4564ed8f0@arm.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:35:27 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/19/20 5:26 PM, Bret Barkelew wrote: > I should clarify that it wasn=92t an official process. It was just a=20 > suggestion that reached some consensus. >=20 Fair enough. I haven't been as active on the mailing list recently, so I= =20 may have missed some of this. I was just slightly shocked that every single platform got broken by=20 this change. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* devel@edk2.groups.io on behalf of Bret=20 > Barkelew via groups.io > *Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:23:45 AM > *To:* Ard Biesheuvel ; Bret Barkelew=20 > > *Cc:* Bret Barkelew ; devel@edk2.groups.io=20 > ; Yao, Jiewen ; Dandan Bi=20 > ; Jian J Wang ; Hao A Wu=20 > ; Liming Gao ; Jordan=20 > Justen ; Laszlo Ersek ;=20 > Andrew Fish ; Ni, Ray > *Subject:* Re: [edk2-devel] [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v9 00/13] Add the=20 > VariablePolicy feature > I followed the process that was agreed upon in this list: I opened bugs= =20 > to every platform maintainer with explicit details of what needed to be= =20 > changed and waited a full month before making any further progress with= =20 > the main patches (adding a month to the completion time). >=20 > I=92m wrapping things up to take a vacation next week, but if there are= =20 > still problems when I return, I can probably contribute to one or two=20 > platforms. >=20 > - Bret > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Ard Biesheuvel > *Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:19:37 AM > *To:* Bret Barkelew > *Cc:* Bret Barkelew ; devel@edk2.groups.io=20 > ; Yao, Jiewen ; Dandan Bi=20 > ; Jian J Wang ; Hao A Wu=20 > ; Liming Gao ; Jordan=20 > Justen ; Laszlo Ersek ;=20 > Andrew Fish ; Ni, Ray ; Bret Barkelew= = =20 > > *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v9 00/13] Add the VariablePolicy featur= e > On 11/19/20 5:15 PM, Bret Barkelew wrote: >> Those bugs and recommendations were sent out months ago. Several platfo= rms have staged the changes already. >>=20 >> You need to add the library class to your DSC. >>=20 >=20 > I know it has been painful to get these changes in, and I am glad that > you stuck with it. But that does not make it OK to simply break every > platform in edk2-platforms/ and not take any responsibility whatsoever > for fixing it. If it is such a trivial fix, why didn't you fix it yourse= lf? >=20 >=20