Re: [PATCH 0/8] v2 De-Couple sysfs memory directories from memory sections

Avi Kivity
2010-10-03T07:53:12Z

On 09/29/2010 02:37 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >> > Thankfully things like rpm, hald, and other miscellaneous commands scan
> >> > that information.
> >>
> >> Really? Why? Why would rpm care about this? hald is dead now so we
> >> don't need to worry about that anymore,
> >
> > That's not what compatiblity means. We can't just support
> > latest-and-greatest userspace on latest-and-greatest kernels.
>
> Oh, I know that, that's not what I was getting at at all here, sorry if
> it came across that way.
>
> I wanted to know so we could go fix programs that are mucking around in
> these files, as odds are, the shouldn't be doing that in the first
> place.
>
> Like rpm, why would it matter what the memory in the system looks like?
>

I see, thanks.

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