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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:07:56 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>, gregkh@...e.de,
kristen.c.accardi@...el.com, lenb@...nel.org, matthew@....cx,
richard.jones2@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
pcihpd-discuss@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> writes:
>
> Also, some companies already provide userspace tools to get all of this
> information about the different slots in a system and what is where,
> from userspace, no kernel changes are needed. So, why add all this
> extra complexity to the kernel if it is not needed?
It's not only complexity. Each new sysfs entry costs memory.
Memory is not free. There should be always a good reason for those.
-Andi
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