Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/cacheinfo: Properly parse CPUID(0x80000005) L1d/L1i associativity

[Ahmed S. Darwish]

On Wed, 09 Apr 2025, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Yeah, so a Cc: stable tag is usually reserved for recent regressions,
> or critical fixes - but this is a bug from 2009, ~16 years old. This
> bug is old enough to receive a driving license in the US, and can
> legally buy beer or wine in Germany.
>

Haha, noted :)

> So I've removed the tags from the two commits in tip:x86/cpu, but note
> that the Fixes tag itself will give backporters enough information so
> they can decide on whether to backport. Greg's -stable process
> typically processes all Fixes tags for example, once Linus pulls this
> into v6.16-to-be.

Yup, makes sense.

Thanks a lot for all the support!
Ahmed