Re: [PATCH] powerpc/hotplug: assign hot added LMB to the right node

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Dec 03 2020 - 13:25:43 EST


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