From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754627Ab1AGKG1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2011 05:06:27 -0500 Received: from vpn.id2.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:40821 "EHLO vpn.id2.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754470Ab1AGKG0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2011 05:06:26 -0500 Message-Id: <4D26F3AE020000780002AF5D@vpn.id2.novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.1 Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:06:22 +0000 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "David Rientjes" Cc: "Ingo Molnar" , "Tejun Heo" , , , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: unify "numa=" command line option handling References: <4D2603BF020000780002ACA7@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4D26D3FD020000780002AED9@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> On 07.01.11 at 10:58, David Rientjes 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