From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: "David Rientjes" <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
<tglx@linutronix.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: unify "numa=" command line option handling
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:06:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D26F3AE020000780002AF5D@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1101070156050.19087@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
>>> On 07.01.11 at 10:58, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> However, the problem my patch addresses has been long standing
>> (I noted it with our .32 based kernel, but according to my looking at
>> the code it would go back to at least .27), so I'd like to ask for it to
>> be merged independently (and I should probably have copied stable
>> too), unless (quite unlikely) Tejun's merge is intended to also be
>> applied to stable kernels.
>>
>
> I don't think this should be targeted to -stable since it's not a bugfix;
> this is adding a feature that allows you to disable acpi parsing of the
> SRAT on i386.
How is this not a bug fix if it allows a system to boot that previously
didn't?
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-07 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-06 17:02 [PATCH] x86: unify "numa=" command line option handling Jan Beulich
2011-01-06 20:36 ` David Rientjes
2011-01-07 7:51 ` Jan Beulich
2011-01-07 9:58 ` David Rientjes
2011-01-07 10:06 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2011-01-07 12:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-07 13:32 ` Jan Beulich
2011-01-07 14:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-07 14:26 ` Jan Beulich
2011-01-07 15:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-07 19:55 ` David Rientjes
2011-01-10 8:14 ` Jan Beulich
2011-01-07 20:37 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-07 20:33 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-07 20:36 ` David Rientjes
2011-01-07 20:43 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-07 20:46 ` David Rientjes
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