Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:57:22 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: unify "numa=" command line option handling |
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* 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
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