This patch is from memory hotplug tree in lhms. This patch changes memory_device's phys_device member from just a number to symbolic link to the device. AFAIK, phys_device is not used now. example) $readlink /sys/devices/system/memory/memory10/phys_device ../../../../firmware/acpi/namespace/ACPI/_SB/LSB1/MEM3 This will help memory hotplug shell script. -- Kame