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

From: David Rientjes
Date: Fri Jan 07 2011 - 04:58:43 EST


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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