From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
gregkh@suse.de, Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
lhms <lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change memoryX->phys_device from number to symlink [1/2] generic func
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:59:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1140191996.21383.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F570B1.7050302@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 15:44 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> This patch is from memory hotplug tree in lhms.
> This patch changes memory_device's phys_device member from just a
> number
> to symbolic link to the device. AFAIK, phys_device is not used now.
We meant to use it for hardware which did not nicely export its
information in sysfs. But, it seems reasonable now to say that, if you
want this file to mean anything on your hardware, export your hardware
in sysfs.
As you said, I don't think anybody uses this yet.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-17 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-17 6:44 [PATCH] change memoryX->phys_device from number to symlink [1/2] generic func KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-02-17 15:59 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2006-02-17 22:24 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 1:24 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2006-02-18 4:12 ` [Lhms-devel] " KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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