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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:37:16 -0700
From: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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To: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] drivers: base: dynamic memory block creation
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On 08/14/2013 02:14 PM, Seth Jennings wrote:
>> >An existing tool would not work
>> >with this patch (plus boot option) since it would not know how to
>> >show/hide things.  It lets_part_  of those existing tools get reused
>> >since they only have to be taught how to show/hide things.
>> >
>> >I'd find this really intriguing if you found a way to keep even the old
>> >tools working.  Instead of having an explicit show/hide, why couldn't
>> >you just create the entries on open(), for instance?
> Nathan and I talked about this and I'm not sure if sysfs would support
> such a thing, i.e. memory block creation when someone tried to cd into
> the memory block device config.  I wouldn't know where to start on that.
>

Also, I'd expect userspace tools might use readdir() to find out what 
memory blocks a system has (unless they just stat("memory0"), 
stat("memory1")...). I don't think filesystem tricks (at least within 
sysfs) are going to let this magically be solved without breaking the 
userspace API.

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