Re: [RFC] Linux memory error handling

[Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:28 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:26:13PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Russ Anderson wrote:
> > > > 	Memory DIMM information & settings:
> > > > 
> > > > 	    Use a /proc/dimm_info interface to pass DIMM information to Linux.
> > > > 	    Hardware vendors could add their hardware specific settings.
> > > 
> > >  I'd recommend a more generic name rather than "dimm_info" if that is to 
> > > be reused universally.
> > 
> I really don't care what it's called, as long as it's descriptive.
> /proc/meminfo is taken.  :-)
> 
> One idea would follow the concept of /proc/bus/ and have /proc/memory/
> with different memory types.  /proc/memory/dimm0 /proc/memory/dimm1
> /proc/memory/flash0 .  

Please don't do this in /proc.  If it's a piece of hardware, and it
needs to have some information about it exported, then you need to use
kobjects and sysfs.  

-- Dave