Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:50:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
cc: Liu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com>, will.deacon@arm.com, vitalya@ti.com,
        cyril@ti.com, santosh.shilimkar@ti.com, lauraa@codeaurora.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        wangnan0@huawei.com, peifeiyue@huawei.com, liusdu@126.co
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] change ARM linux memory layout to support 32
 CPUs
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:06:05PM +0800, Liu Hua wrote:
> > This patch series change fixmap mapping region to suppport 32 CPUs.
> > Because the "top_pmd" covers 0xfffe0000 - 0xffffffff(2M). And part 
> > is used by vector table. So I move this region down to 0xffc00000
> >  - 0xffdffff. 
> 
> Can you explain why you have submitted these patches to my patch tracker
> with a copy to stable@vger.kernel.org ?
> 
> What makes these qualify for stable tree inclusion?  What regression are
> they fixing?
> 
> We don't put patches into the stable tree for things that /never/ worked
> in the past.  We've never supported 32 CPUs so I don't think these
> qualify.

Indeed.  The stable qualifier should be dropped.


Nicolas
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