Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:38:09 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH - resend] Memory-Hotplug: Fix the bug on interface /dev/mem for 64-bit kernel(v1) |
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> Hmmm....could you rewrite /dev/mem to use kernel/resource.c other than > modifing e820 maps. ?
Sorry but responding to bug fixes with "could you please rewrite ..." is not considered fair. Shaohui is just trying to fix a bug here, not redesigning a subsystem.
> Two reasons. > - e820map is considerted to be stable, read-only after boot. > - We don't need to add more x86 special codes.
We need working memory hotadd.
-Andi
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