From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
mel@skynet.ie, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com,
Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add node 'states' sysfs class attribute - V2
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:34:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070827223401.20230eb1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070827222912.8b364352.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:29:12 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Even if you do this: It will significantly slow us
> > down always having to come to you and ask you for a tool.
>
> Your claim here is, I believe, that a human user interface should be
> implemented in the kernel because the cost (to you) (short-term) of doing
> that is lower that the cost of implementing a simpler kernel interface and
> a bit of userspace human presentation code. Even though the long-term
> cost to the kernel maintainers is higher, and the resulting output is
> harder for programs to parse.
oh, hang on. We've already implemented that bitmap_scnlistprintf() monstrosity
and we're presumably using it in sysfs, so tools already need to know how
to parse it all.
Sigh, so it's too late to fix it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-28 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-24 22:28 + memoryless-nodes-fixup-uses-of-node_online_map-in-generic-code-fix.patch added to -mm tree akpm
2007-08-27 15:58 ` [PATCH] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - update N_HIGH_MEMORY node state for memory hotadd Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-27 17:48 ` [PATCH/RFC] Add node 'states' sysfs class attribute Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-27 19:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-27 20:08 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-27 20:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-27 21:02 ` [PATCH/RFC] Add node 'states' sysfs class attribute - V2 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-27 21:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-28 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-28 0:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-28 1:14 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-28 1:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-28 3:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-28 5:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-28 5:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-28 5:34 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-28 5:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-28 6:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-28 14:05 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-28 22:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-28 22:13 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-08-29 14:43 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-29 17:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-29 21:31 ` [PATCH/RFC] Add node states sysfs class attributeS - V3 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-29 22:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-30 13:34 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-29 22:36 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-08-30 15:19 ` [PATCH/RFC] Add node states sysfs class attributeS - V4 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-30 16:44 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-08-30 18:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-30 18:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-30 18:41 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-09-11 13:56 ` [PATCH/RFC] Add node states sysfs class attributeS - V5 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-09-11 20:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-14 10:50 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-14 11:35 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-14 14:34 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-09-14 14:43 ` Mel Gorman
2007-09-14 15:00 ` Paul Mundt
2007-09-16 12:10 ` Mel Gorman
2007-09-14 16:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-08-28 19:34 ` [PATCH/RFC] Add node 'states' sysfs class attribute - V2 Christoph Lameter
2007-08-28 1:16 ` Yasunori Goto
2007-08-28 1:21 ` Yasunori Goto
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