From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752583Ab2AOVyn (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:54:43 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:56794 "EHLO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752463Ab2AOVyl (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:54:41 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: eTHPyQpeyMqyw1Rex2IJIcbK9T7xNDFlV+4LUdfv+IpS 1326664480 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:52:37 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Kurt Garloff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3]: Store SRAT revision Message-ID: <20120115215237.GA10124@kroah.com> References: <20120115213005.GT12380@tpkurt2.garloff.de> <20120115213407.GU12380@tpkurt2.garloff.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120115213407.GU12380@tpkurt2.garloff.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 [Koeln/Greven] > > From: Kurt Garloff > 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 > > --- > drivers/acpi/numa.c | 3 +++ > include/acpi/acpi_numa.h | 1 + > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly.