From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040936B01E3 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 15:07:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:58:44 -0700 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC, 6/7] NUMA hotplug emulator Message-ID: <20100513185844.GA5959@suse.de> References: <20100513120016.GG2169@shaohui> <20100513165603.GC25212@suse.de> <1273773737.13285.7771.camel@nimitz> <20100513181539.GA26597@suse.de> <1273776578.13285.7820.camel@nimitz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1273776578.13285.7820.camel@nimitz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Dave Hansen Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Hidetoshi Seto , Wu Fengguang , Heiko Carstens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, haicheng.li@linux.intel.com, shaohui.zheng@linux.intel.com List-ID: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:49:38AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 11:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > echo "physical_address=0x40000000 numa_node=3" > memory/probe > > > > > > I'd *GREATLY* prefer that over this new syntax. The existing mechanism > > > is obtuse enough, and the ',3' makes it more so. > > > > > > We should have the code around to parse arguments like that, too, since > > > we use it for the boot command-line. > > > > If you are going to be doing something like this, please use configfs, > > that is what it is designed for, not sysfs. > > That's probably a really good point, especially since configfs didn't > even exist when we made this 'probe' file thingy. It never was a great > fit for sysfs anyway. Really? configfs was added in 2.6.16, when was this probe file added? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org