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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>