From: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "memory-hotplug: add 0x prefix to HEX block_size_bytes"
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 23:41:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100408153745.GA4213@hack> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100408151006.GB2446@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 05:10:06PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
>
>Revert ba168fc37dea145deeb8fa9e7e71c748d2e00d74 "memory-hotplug: add 0x prefix
>to HEX block_size_bytes" since it changes the user space visible sysfs interface
>/sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes.
>The change breaks existing user space applications which rely on the fact that
>the output does not contain the "0x" prefix.
>
Odd.
Which application relies on this? Isn't the application which should
be fixed?? It should use something like strtoul() which doesn't
rely on '0x' prefix.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-08 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-08 15:10 [PATCH] Revert "memory-hotplug: add 0x prefix to HEX block_size_bytes" Heiko Carstens
2010-04-08 15:41 ` Américo Wang [this message]
2010-04-08 21:29 ` Heiko Carstens
2010-04-09 1:42 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-09 8:31 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-12 5:41 ` Pavel Machek
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