linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert 2fbd07a5f so machines with BSPs phsyical apic id != 0 can boot

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001111454060.17145@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:55:17 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
cc:	"ananth@...ibm.com" <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...nel.org" <stable@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert 2fbd07a5f so machines with BSPs phsyical apic id
 != 0 can boot



On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> 
> So far, I don't see a need for the revert.

It's very easy. It breaks. You don't have a fix. We'll revert it.

There's no need to "see a need". That's not how it works. It works the 
other way around: I don't see a need for a known-broken patch, which is 
why it will be reverted since apparently you don't understand why it is 
broken.

		Linus
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