* symlinks in /proc/device-tree
@ 2005-05-30 5:07 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-30 6:17 ` Olaf Hering
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt @ 2005-05-30 5:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc64-dev, linuxppc-dev list
Hi !
Is anybody actually using one of these things in /proc/device-tree ?
- for a node name@address, symlinks from name->node and @address->node
- the fact that we remove the @address part if address is 0
I'm considering killing both of these things for 2.6.13. That will
reduce the memory footprint of the device-tree significantly (bloat in
inode cache) and it will be a more exact representation of the actual
tree. Besides, the symlinks are not really useful in practice.
Ben.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: symlinks in /proc/device-tree
2005-05-30 5:07 symlinks in /proc/device-tree Benjamin Herrenschmidt
@ 2005-05-30 6:17 ` Olaf Hering
2005-05-30 6:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Olaf Hering @ 2005-05-30 6:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt; +Cc: linuxppc64-dev, linuxppc-dev list
On Mon, May 30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Is anybody actually using one of these things in /proc/device-tree ?
Just make sure the devspec file in sysfs doesnt contain symlinks.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: symlinks in /proc/device-tree
2005-05-30 6:17 ` Olaf Hering
@ 2005-05-30 6:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt @ 2005-05-30 6:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Olaf Hering; +Cc: linuxppc64-dev, linuxppc-dev list
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 08:17 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > Hi !
> >
> > Is anybody actually using one of these things in /proc/device-tree ?
>
> Just make sure the devspec file in sysfs doesnt contain symlinks.
It doesn't.
Ben.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2005-05-30 6:22 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2005-05-30 5:07 symlinks in /proc/device-tree Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-30 6:17 ` Olaf Hering
2005-05-30 6:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).