Re: [PATCH 0/8] v2 De-Couple sysfs memory directories from memorysections

[Avi Kivity]

 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.

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