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Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:58:44 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> To: Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, haicheng.li@...ux.intel.com, shaohui.zheng@...ux.intel.com Subject: Re: [RFC, 6/7] NUMA hotplug emulator On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:49:38AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 11:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > echo "physical_address=0x40000000 numa_node=3" > memory/probe > > > > > > I'd *GREATLY* prefer that over this new syntax. The existing mechanism > > > is obtuse enough, and the ',3' makes it more so. > > > > > > We should have the code around to parse arguments like that, too, since > > > we use it for the boot command-line. > > > > If you are going to be doing something like this, please use configfs, > > that is what it is designed for, not sysfs. > > That's probably a really good point, especially since configfs didn't > even exist when we made this 'probe' file thingy. It never was a great > fit for sysfs anyway. Really? configfs was added in 2.6.16, when was this probe file added? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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