Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] of, numa: Return NUMA_NO_NODE from disable of_node_to_nid()" failed to apply to 4.8-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:11:03AM +0100, Gilbert Netzer wrote:
> On 06/01/17 16:16, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.8-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> > 
> > From b6cc9474e2dd9f0c19b694b40961d81117f1e918 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> > Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:15:02 -0700
> > Subject: [PATCH] of, numa: Return NUMA_NO_NODE from disable of_node_to_nid()
> >  if nid not possible.
> > 
> > 
> ...
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> sorry for the mess, it seems that this patch (b6cc9474e2dd) depends on
> 
> 9787ed6e5cee7a62320f3014eb5e7b373502c292
> [PATCH] of/numa: remove a duplicated warning
> 
> by Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> from 1 Sep 2016 to be applied
> for v4.7.10 and v4.8.17. After applying both I get the diff shown
> below. With these changes I could boot both v4.7.10 and v4.8.17 with
> "numa=off" to userspace on a Gigabyte R270-T60 server.
> 
> I apologize for the double send, hopefully now my email client is
> properly configured to send plain text only.

Thanks for the info, but 4.8 is now end-of-life (as is 4.7), so I can't
go back and add these.  Just use 4.9 and all will be fine :)

thanks,

greg k-h