Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] v5 Update memory-hotplug documentation

From: Nishanth Aravamudan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:48:41 -0700

On Monday, August 09, 2010 01:44:37 pm Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On Monday, August 09, 2010 11:43:46 am Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> > Update the memory hotplug documentation to reflect the new behaviors of
> > memory blocks reflected in sysfs.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt	2010-08-09 07:36:48.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt	2010-08-09 07:59:54.000000000 -0500
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > -/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_index
> > +/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/start_phys_index
> > +/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/end_phys_index
> >  /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_device
> >  /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
> >  /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/removable
> > 
> > -'phys_index' : read-only and contains section id, same as XXX.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > +'phys_index'      : read-only and contains section id of the first section
> 
> Shouldn't this be "start_phys_index"?

Ah, actually it's that the Documentation change doesn't seem to agree with
patch 2/8 ? That is, 2/8 leaves phys_index in place, but changes several
variables, while this patch indicates its removal?

Thanks,
Nish

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Nishanth Aravamudan <[email-masked]>
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