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

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Date:	Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:06:22 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"David Rientjes" <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@...nel.org>,
	<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 07.01.11 at 10:58, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.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?

Jan

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