From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262560AbTJJHao (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:30:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262583AbTJJHao (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:30:44 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:32978 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262560AbTJJHal (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:30:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:30:27 +0900 From: YoshiyaETO Subject: Re: 2.7 thoughts To: William Lee Irwin III , Stuart Longland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski , lgb@lgb.hu, Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be Message-id: <047b01c38f00$60b34840$6a647c0a@eto> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <20031009115809.GE8370@vega.digitel2002.hu> <20031009165723.43ae9cb5.skraw@ithnet.com> <3F864F82.4050509@longlandclan.hopto.org> <20031010063039.GA700@holomorphy.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. ---- "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" To: "Stuart Longland" Cc: "Stephan von Krawczynski" ; ; ; 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/