Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:31 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sysfs cpu probe/release files |
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:12:21AM -0600, Nathan Fontenot wrote: > In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an > interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system. > This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate > cpu probe/release. The probe/release interface provides for allowing each > arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding > and removing cpus to/from the system. > > This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts > from writes to the sysfs files.
Can you document these new sysfs files with some information in the Documentation/ABI/ directory please?
thanks,
greg k-h
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