Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:32:34 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] v2 De-Couple sysfs memory directories from memory sections |
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On 09/29/2010 04:50 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Because the old ABI creates 129,000+ entries inside > > /sys/devices/system/memory with their associated links from > > /sys/devices/system/node/node*/ back to those directory entries. > > > > Thankfully things like rpm, hald, and other miscellaneous commands scan > > that information. > > Really? Why? Why would rpm care about this? hald is dead now so we > don't need to worry about that anymore,
That's not what compatiblity means. We can't just support latest-and-greatest userspace on latest-and-greatest kernels.
-- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.
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