From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, x86@kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com,
vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add /sys/firmware/memmap
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:51:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214592664.12598.30.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214565175-21512-2-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de>
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 13:12 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
>
> This patch adds /sys/firmware/memmap interface that represents the
> BIOS
> (or Firmware) provided memory map. The tree looks like:
>
> /sys/firmware/memmap/0/start (hex number)
> end (hex number)
> type (string)
> ... /1/start
> end
> type
Could we give this a slightly different name? We have various 'mem_map'
variables in the kernel, and this confused me on first glance.
Could we just spell out 'memory_map'?
-- Dave
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From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, vgoyal@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add /sys/firmware/memmap
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:51:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214592664.12598.30.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214565175-21512-2-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de>
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 13:12 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
>
> This patch adds /sys/firmware/memmap interface that represents the
> BIOS
> (or Firmware) provided memory map. The tree looks like:
>
> /sys/firmware/memmap/0/start (hex number)
> end (hex number)
> type (string)
> ... /1/start
> end
> type
Could we give this a slightly different name? We have various 'mem_map'
variables in the kernel, and this confused me on first glance.
Could we just spell out 'memory_map'?
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-27 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-27 11:12 x86: Add /sys/firmware/memmap Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 11:12 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 11:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 11:12 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 18:51 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2008-06-27 18:51 ` Dave Hansen
2008-06-27 20:56 ` Greg KH
2008-06-27 20:56 ` Greg KH
2008-07-01 20:30 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-07-01 20:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-12 0:36 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-12 0:36 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-12 22:15 ` firmware/memmap fixes Bernhard Walle
2008-07-12 22:15 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-07-12 22:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] firmware/memmap: Cleanup Bernhard Walle
2008-07-12 22:15 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-07-12 22:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] firmware/memmap: Move kobject initialisation before kobject_add() Bernhard Walle
2008-07-12 22:15 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 11:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] Use FIRMWARE_MEMMAP on x86/E820 Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 11:12 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 13:01 ` x86: Add /sys/firmware/memmap Vivek Goyal
2008-06-27 13:01 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-27 18:18 ` Greg KH
2008-06-27 18:18 ` Greg KH
2008-06-27 18:34 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 18:34 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-07-03 14:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-03 14:15 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-26 20:19 Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 20:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 20:19 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 20:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 20:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 22:24 ` Greg KH
2008-06-26 22:24 ` Greg KH
2008-06-27 11:08 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 11:08 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 8:14 x86: " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 8:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 8:14 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-25 19:57 x86: " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-25 19:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-25 19:57 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-25 22:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-25 22:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 8:13 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-26 8:13 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-26 8:45 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 8:45 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 9:11 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-26 9:11 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-26 18:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-26 18:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-26 18:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 18:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 19:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-26 19:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-26 18:23 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 18:23 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 12:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 12:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 8:15 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 8:15 ` Bernhard Walle
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