On 1/17/2013 11:30 AM, Luck, Tony wrote: >> 2. If the user *does* care which nodes are movable, then the user needs >> to be able to specify that *in a way that makes sense to the user*. >> This may mean involving the DMI information as well as SRAT in order to >> get "silk screen" type information out. > > One reason they might care would be which I/O devices are connected > to each node. DMI might be a good way to get an invariant name for the > node, but they might also want to specify in terms of what they actually > want. E.g. "eth0 and eth4 are a redundant bonded pair of NICs - don't > mark both these nodes as removable". Though this is almost certainly not > a job for kernel options, but for some user configuration tool that would > spit out the DMI names.
I agree DMI parsing should be done in userland if we really need DMI parsing. -- 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/
