From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755149Ab0I2Ic5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:32:57 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44829 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754970Ab0I2Ic4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:32:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA2F9A2.3090202@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:32:34 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Robin Holt , Nathan Fontenot , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Dave Hansen , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] v2 De-Couple sysfs memory directories from memory sections References: <4CA0EBEB.1030204@austin.ibm.com> <4CA1E338.6070201@redhat.com> <20100928151218.GJ14068@sgi.com> <20100929025035.GA13096@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20100929025035.GA13096@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/29/2010 04:50 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Because the old ABI creates 129,000+ entries inside > > /sys/devices/system/memory with their associated links from > > /sys/devices/system/node/node*/ back to those directory entries. > > > > 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. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.