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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] pseries: Create new device hotplug entry point
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On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 15:51 -0600, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> 
> For PowerVM systems, this patch creates the /sys/kernel/dlpar file that rtas
> hotplug events can be written to by drmgr and passed to the common entry point.
> There is no chance of updating how we receive hotplug requests on PowerVM
> systems.

I'm not convinced this is the right place for that file, might be worth asking
Greg KH what he thinks here.

Cheers,
Ben.