From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752605Ab0JCHxM (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2010 03:53:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59797 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752089Ab0JCHxL (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2010 03:53:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA83651.1010502@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:52:49 +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> <4CA2F9A2.3090202@redhat.com> <20100929123752.GA18865@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20100929123752.GA18865@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 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. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.