Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects

Andi Kleen
2007-11-14T01:07:59Z

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
>
> Also, some companies already provide userspace tools to get all of this
> information about the different slots in a system and what is where,
> from userspace, no kernel changes are needed. So, why add all this
> extra complexity to the kernel if it is not needed?

It's not only complexity. Each new sysfs entry costs memory.
Memory is not free. There should be always a good reason for those.

-Andi