linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: unify "numa=" command line option handling

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1101070156050.19087@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Fri, 7 Jan 2011 01:58:31 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: unify "numa=" command line option handling

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.  Since Tejun's patchset is mature, I think the unification 
should be handled there (if not done so already).
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