Re: 2.7 thoughts

[YoshiyaETO <eto@soft.fujitsu.com>]

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:19:46PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> > * hotplug motherboard & entire computer too I spose ;-)
>
> Um, this is worse than the above wrt. being too vague.
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"Hotplug node" is a better explanation, I think.
"Node" includes CPUs and/or Memory and/or some kind of IOs.
And "Node" should be flexibly configurable also.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Lee Irwin III" <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Stuart Longland" <stuartl@longlandclan.hopto.org>
Cc: "Stephan von Krawczynski" <skraw@ithnet.com>; <lgb@lgb.hu>;
<Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: 2.7 thoughts


> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:19:46PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> >>* hotplug CPU
> >>* hotplug RAM
>
> Generally thought of as desirable, but hotplug RAM needs a *LOT* of
> qualification.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:19:46PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> > * hotplug motherboard & entire computer too I spose ;-)
>
> Um, this is worse than the above wrt. being too vague.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:19:46PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> > Although sarcasm aside, a couple of ideas that have been bantered around
> > on this list (and a few of my own ideas):
> > - /proc interface alternative to modutils/module-init-tools.
> > That is, to have a directory of virtual nodes in /proc
> > to provide the functionality of insmod, rmmod, lsmod &
> > modprobe would be great -- especially from the viewpoint
> > of recue disk images, etc.
>
> No way in Hell.
>
>
> -- wli
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