Re: [PATCH 1/3]: Store SRAT revision

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:34:07PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch stores the SRAT table revision for later consumption
> by arch specific __init functions.
> 
> 
> This is patch 1/3.
> -- 
> Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>  [Koeln/Greven]
> 

> From: Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>
> Subject: Store SRAT table revision
> References: bnc#503038
> 
> In SRAT v1, we had 8bit proximity domain (PXM) fields; SRAT v2 provides
> 32bits for these. The new fields were reserved before.
> According to the ACPI spec, the OS must disregrard reserved fields.
> In order to know whether or not, we must know what version the SRAT
> table has.
> 
> This patch stores the SRAT table revision for later consumption
> by arch specific __init functions.
> 
> This is patch 1/3.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/numa.c      |    3 +++
>  include/acpi/acpi_numa.h |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)


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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
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