Messages in this thread | | | From | Russ Anderson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Linux memory error handling | Date | Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:27:57 -0500 (CDT) |
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Dave Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:28 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > Russell King wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:26:13PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > > > Memory DIMM information & settings: > > > > > > > > > > Use a /proc/dimm_info interface to pass DIMM information to Linux. > > > > > Hardware vendors could add their hardware specific settings. > > > > > > > > I'd recommend a more generic name rather than "dimm_info" if that is to > > > > be reused universally. > > > > > I really don't care what it's called, as long as it's descriptive. > > /proc/meminfo is taken. :-) > > > > One idea would follow the concept of /proc/bus/ and have /proc/memory/ > > with different memory types. /proc/memory/dimm0 /proc/memory/dimm1 > > /proc/memory/flash0 . > > Please don't do this in /proc. If it's a piece of hardware, and it > needs to have some information about it exported, then you need to use > kobjects and sysfs.
How about /sys/devices/system/memory/dimmX with links in /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/ ? Does that sound better?
-- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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