Re: [RFC PATCH] memory driver: make phys_index/end_phys_index reflect the start/end section number

[Nathan Fontenot]

On 04/08/2014 11:13 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 04/08/2014 01:27 AM, Li Zhong wrote:
>> If Dave and others don't have further objections, it seems this small
>> userspace incompatibility could be accepted by most of us, and I don't
>> need to make a version 2. 
> 
> Let me ask another question then.  What are the units of
> phys_index/end_phys_index?  How do we expose those units to userspace?
>

The documentation for these files just states that the files contain
the first and last section id of memory in the memory block for
phys_index and end_phys_index respectively.

I'm not sure the values have ever been units of anything, at least not
that I remember.

-Nathan
 

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