Re: [RFC, 6/7] NUMA hotplug emulator

[Dave Hansen]

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.

-- Dave

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