From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Wrong number of core_siblings in sysfs for Athlon64 X2
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:18:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602170318.15511.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140142257.29021.31.camel@localhost>
On Friday 17 February 2006 03:10, Zan Lynx wrote:
> It seems to me that this could be confusing for a lot of people who are
> casually browsing through sysfs. Why not name core_siblings something
> like core_sibling_bitmap?
Because it's already a fixed ABI that is put in stone.
The only way to do what you want would be to add a new field
and keep the old one alone, but frankly your rationale for
it ("could be confusing to someone") doesn't seem convincing enough
for such a thing. Especially since each sysfs field can
cost considerable memory when a dentry and a inode have to be allocated
for it.
I guess if you worry about such people a better way to help
them would be to write them a frontend that displays
the information in there in nice form.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-17 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-16 21:46 Wrong number of core_siblings in sysfs for Athlon64 X2 Jesper Juhl
2006-02-16 21:59 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-16 22:08 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-17 2:10 ` Zan Lynx
2006-02-17 2:18 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-02-17 2:58 ` Zan Lynx
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