On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:17:12PM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote: > This patchset is an initial prototype of proposed hot-plug framework > for design review. The hot-plug framework is designed to provide > the common framework for hot-plugging and online/offline operations > of system devices, such as CPU, Memory and Node. While this patchset > only supports ACPI-based hot-plug operations, the framework itself is > designed to be platform-neural and can support other FW architectures > as necessary. > > The patchset has not been fully tested yet, esp. for memory hot-plug. > Any help for testing will be very appreciated since my test setup > is limited. > > The patchset is based on the linux-next branch of linux-pm.git tree. > > Overview of the Framework > =========================
<snip> Why all the new framework, doesn't the existing bus infrastructure provide everything you need here? Shouldn't you just be putting your cpus and memory sticks on a bus and handle stuff that way? What makes these types of devices so unique from all other devices that Linux has been handling in a dynamic manner (i.e. hotplugging them) for many many years? Why are you reinventing the wheel? confused, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
