linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen: make sysfs files behave as their names suggest

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Message-ID: <20090129023516.GB1319@verge.net.au>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:35:18 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stable Kernel <stable@...nel.org>,
	"dan.magenheimer@...cle.com" <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: make sysfs files behave as their names suggest

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:50:20PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 1: make "target_kb" only accept and produce a memory size in kilobytes.
> 2: add a second "target" file which produces output in bytes, and will accept
>   memparse input (scaled bytes)
>
> This fixes the rather irritating problem that writing the same value
> read back into target_kb would end up shrinking the domain by a factor
> of 1024, with generally bad results.

Are there any compatibility issues that we should care about
related to this change?

-- 
Simon Horman
  VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office
  H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/             W: www.valinux.co.jp/en

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