This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cpu: Fix broken cmdline "nosmp" and "maxcpus=0" to the 6.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: cpu-fix-broken-cmdline-nosmp-and-maxcpus-0.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.