Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760441AbYF0SvU (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:51:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752884AbYF0SvN (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:51:13 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:37995 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754623AbYF0SvM (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:51:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add /sys/firmware/memmap From: Dave Hansen To: Bernhard Walle Cc: x86@kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, kexec@lists.infradead.org, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1214565175-21512-2-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> References: <1214565175-21512-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> <1214565175-21512-2-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:51:04 -0700 Message-Id: <1214592664.12598.30.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 25 On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 13:12 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > This patch adds /sys/firmware/memmap interface that represents the > BIOS > (or Firmware) provided memory map. The tree looks like: > > /sys/firmware/memmap/0/start (hex number) > end (hex number) > type (string) > ... /1/start > end > type Could we give this a slightly different name? We have various 'mem_map' variables in the kernel, and this confused me on first glance. Could we just spell out 'memory_map'? -- Dave -- 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/