From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 16:16:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] [PATCH] Node Hotplug Support Message-Id: <540080000.1083946609@[10.10.2.4]> List-Id: References: <20040508003904.63395ca7.tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20040508003904.63395ca7.tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Keiichiro Tokunaga , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, lhns-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > ACPI is used to do some hardware manipulation. > There is no general purpose interface to get hardware information > and manipulate hardware today, but hardware proprietary interfaces. > ACPI is one of them, and I decided to use it because: > > - Its spec is open. > - I can use it without any hardware special knowledge:) You can't base platform-independant Linux code on ACPI, when not all NUMA boxes will support it. The fact that your particular box may support it doesn't make it a generally applicable idea ;-) You need a better abstraction (and preferably one without the massive complexity whilst you're at it). M. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel