On Monday, August 09, 2010 01:44:37 pm Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

On Monday, August 09, 2010 11:43:46 am Nathan Fontenot wrote:

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Update the memory hotplug documentation to reflect the new behaviors of
memory blocks reflected in sysfs.

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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

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-/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.

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+'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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