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

"Ahmed S. Darwish" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.x86-cpuid,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <Z_dc0h-EI5RWtIK2@lx-t490>
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
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