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From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] ACPI: support acpi_device_ops .notify methods
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:43:51 +0900
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> On Thursday 02 April 2009 06:23:16 pm Yasunori Goto wrote:
> > > On Thursday 02 April 2009 07:56:28 am Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > > > I remember these two guys helped me testing on memory hotplug.
> > > > They only had a simulator, but might want to give the latest kernel a try if
> > > > you come to clean up acpi_memhotplug.c:
> > > > kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com
> > > > Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > 
> > I can use real machine which can memory hotplug.
> > In our case, notify method is called for container device (NUMA node),
> > and memory and processor devices are added under acpi_bus_scan().
> > 
> > I'll book it to test this patch in next week.
> > It must be good test. :-)
> 
> Thomas is right; I don't think it's worth your time to do much testing
> right now.  These patches only affect device notifications, and I think
> the container/memory/processor stuff you're referring to depends on the
> system notifications.  So this series should not affect the hotplug
> path.

Ah, OK. I misunderstood something.
Sorry for noise.

> 
> I am working on some changes to the hotplug path, but that looks much
> more difficult, so it'll probably be a while before anything comes of
> it.  Thanks for the tip; I'll make sure to CC: you when I post patches.




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Yasunori Goto