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

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Message-ID: <20110107125722.GA23185@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:57:22 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, 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


* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com> wrote:

> >>> 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?

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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