Due to possibly "bricking" the system, the samsung-laptop driver should not be allowed to run if booting from EFI

There are a larger number of commits involved in pulling this functionality back into Precise. Test kernels can be found at:
http://people.canonical.com/~bradf/lp1111689/

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel for Quantal in -proposed solves the problem (3.5.0-24.37). Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-quantal' to 'verification-done-quantal'.

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Dear Bratt, I have a samsung 530u3c on which I installed a recent daily image of precise with the kernel 3.5.0-23-generic #35~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 25 17:13:26 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
In my update-manager I have your kernel (3.5.0-24.37) as an update in the proposed updates. In the changelog is written
 * Revert "SAUCE: samsung-laptop: disable in UEFI mode"
I don't really want samsung-laptop to run, but with this changelog message it looks as if it is re-instated. I am not sure if I should update now, because I don't want to run samsung-laptop and risk to brick my samsung. Now in the title of this bug report it is written that samsung-laptop should not be run in uefi mode... I am confused. If you can reassure me that samsung-laptop does not run under uefi with this kernel I could try it.

@fabri

We reverted an earlier version of the patch to disable the samsung-laptop driver and then committed a newer, better version of the patch that came from upstream.

I don't actually have a Samsung laptop to try this on however, the patches were clean cherry-picks of the upstream commits which have been Linus' tree for a little while so should have gotten some testing. I recommend that we accept these changes and I'm going go to ahead and mark this as verified.

Just checked the kernel on my samsung 530u3c laptop, and it works, thanks Brad.

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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.5.0-24.37

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linux (3.5.0-24.37) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  [Luis Henriques]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1117492

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] CONFIG_ALX=m for x86 only
    - LP: #927782

linux (3.5.0-24.36) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  [Luis Henriques]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1116501

  [ Adam Lee ]

  * [Config] Enable RTSX_PCI modules
    - LP: #1057089

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * [Config] enable various HVC consoles
    - LP: #1102206

  [ Brad Figg ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: samsung-laptop: disable in UEFI mode"
    - LP: #1111689

  [ Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski ]

  * [Config] updateconfigs for 3.5.7.3 stable update
  * d-i: Add mellanox ethernet drivers to nic-modules
    - LP: #1015339

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * SAUCE: alx driver import script
    - LP: #927782

  [ Qualcomm Atheros, Inc ]

  * SAUCE: alx: Update to heads/master
    - LP: #927782

  [ Seth Forshee ]

  * SAUCE: samsung-laptop: Add quirk for broken acpi_video backlight on
    N250P
    - LP: #1086921

  [ Stefan Bader ]

  * (config) Move 9p modules into generic package
    - LP: #1107658

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [debian] Remove dangling symlink from headers package
    - LP: #1112442
  * [config] CONFIG_ALX=m
    - LP: #927782
  * [Config] Add alx to d-i nic-modules
    - LP: #927782

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "8139cp: revert "set ring address before enabling receiver""
    - LP: #1102417
  * Revert "ath9k_hw: Update AR9003 high_power tx gain table"
    - LP: #1102417
  * Revert "drm/i915: no lvds quirk for Zotac ZDBOX SD ID12/ID13"
    - LP: #1102417
  * Revert "ALSA: hda - Shut up pins at power-saving mode with Conexnat
    codecs"
    - LP: #1106966, #886975
  * be2net: don't call vid_config() when there's no vlan config
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: cleanup be_vid_config()
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: do not modify PCI MaxReadReq size
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: fix reporting number of actual rx queues
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: do not use SCRATCHPAD register
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Fix driver load for VFs for Lancer
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Explicitly clear the reserved field in the Tx Descriptor
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Regression bug wherein VFs creation broken for multiple cards.
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Fix to trim skb for padded vlan packets to workaround an ASIC
    Bug
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Fix Endian
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Fix error while toggling autoneg of pause parameters
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net : Fix die temperature stat for Lancer
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Fix initialization sequence for Lancer
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Activate new FW after FW download for Lancer
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Fix cleanup path when EQ creation fails
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Enable RSS UDP hashing for Lancer and Skyhawk
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: dont pull too much data in skb linear part
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Fix VF driver load for Lancer
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Ignore physical link async event for Lancer
    - LP: #1083088
  * be2net: Fix to parse RSS hash from Receive compl...

Brad Figg, given this report has some overlap with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1199401 and the requested patches are in Raring+ as per:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-raring.git;a=commit;h=83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-raring.git;a=commit;h=e0094244e41c4d0c7ad69920681972fc45d8ce34

Would there be anything else or may the linux (Ubuntu) task be closed out?