Re: [PATCH] x86: unify "numa=" command line option handling

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:

> >>> 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?

btw., that's an absolutely key piece of information that REALLY should have been 
included in the changelog of the first patch. It is more important than all of the 
changelog.

Thanks,

	Ingo