From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262508AbTJJG2l (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:28:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262525AbTJJG2l (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:28:41 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:29312 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262508AbTJJG2k (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:28:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 23:30:39 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Stuart Longland Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski , lgb@lgb.hu, Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.7 thoughts Message-ID: <20031010063039.GA700@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Stuart Longland , Stephan von Krawczynski , lgb@lgb.hu, Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031009115809.GE8370@vega.digitel2002.hu> <20031009165723.43ae9cb5.skraw@ithnet.com> <3F864F82.4050509@longlandclan.hopto.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F864F82.4050509@longlandclan.hopto.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i 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: 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