On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 09:55:11AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:48:35PM +0800, Shaohui Zheng wrote: > > Userland interface to hotplug-add fake offlined nodes. > > Why include 2 copies of the patch in one email? I always try to attach the patch as attachment, it is the same with the mail content, I guess it should take convenience when you need to save the patch to local, it might be a bad habbit, I will be careful when I send patch next time. thanks for the reminding. > > > Add a sysfs entry "probe" under /sys/devices/system/node/: > > > > - to show all fake offlined nodes: > > $ cat /sys/devices/system/node/probe > > > > - to hotadd a fake offlined node, e.g. nodeid is N: > > $ echo N > /sys/devices/system/node/probe > > As you are trying to add a new sysfs file, please create the matching > Documentation/ABI/ file as well. Agree, We will document it in. > > Also note that sysfs files are "one value per file", which I don't think > this file follows, right? Agree, the cpu/probe interface should write only, and we should create another file to indicate the hidden nodes, such as cpu/hidden. We will follow this rule when we send the formal patch. Thanks greg's comments so much, have a nice day. > > thanks, > > greg k-h -- Thanks & Regards, Shaohui -- 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>