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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>,
	Scott Cheloha <cheloha@linux.ibm.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/hotplug: assign hot added LMB to the right node
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 19:25:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X8ktsoAv4/h+p1/8@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201203101514.33591-1-ldufour@linux.ibm.com>

On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 11:15:14AM +0100, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> This patch applies to 5.9 and earlier kernels only.
> 
> Since 5.10, this has been fortunately fixed by the commit
> e5e179aa3a39 ("pseries/drmem: don't cache node id in drmem_lmb struct").

Why can't we just backport that patch instead?  It's almost always
better to do that than to have a one-off patch, as almost always those
have bugs in them.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-03 10:15 Laurent Dufour
2020-12-03 18:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-12-04  8:12   ` Laurent Dufour

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