Re: [PATCH] xen: make sysfs files behave as their names suggest

[Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:31:25PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Simon Horman wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:50:20PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>   
>>> 1: make "target_kb" only accept and produce a memory size in kilobytes.
>>> 2: add a second "target" file which produces output in bytes, and will accept
>>>   memparse input (scaled bytes)
>>>
>>> This fixes the rather irritating problem that writing the same value
>>> read back into target_kb would end up shrinking the domain by a factor
>>> of 1024, with generally bad results.
>>>     
>>
>> Are there any compatibility issues that we should care about
>> related to this change?
>>   
>
> Well, in theory, but not in practice I think.
>
> It changes the behaviour of target_kb from accepting bytes into  
> kilobytes, and it no longer parses a k/m/g suffix.  The old behaviour  
> was a definite bug, given the name of the file, so I consider this to be  
> pure bugfix.  The kernel introducing this interface has only been out  
> for a week or two, so I don't think there's much chance anyone has  
> started relying on the buggy behaviour.

Thanks for the clarification. I have no objections.

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