On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 19:19:19 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > The spapr implementation of query-hotpluggable-cpus builds the list of > hotpluggable cores from the end (most removed from the list head) > because that's the easiest way with a singly linked list. Because it > also traverses the possible CPU cores starting from low indexes the > resulting list has the cpu cores listed in reverse order by core-id. > > That's not generally harmful, but it means the output from "info > hotpluggable-cpus" is a little harder to read than it could be. > > Therefore, traverse the cpus in reverse order so that the final list > ends up in increasing-core-id order.
To make this interface usable with in-order hotplug the ordering of the entries should be codified in the schema documentation. (see my response on the cover letter for justification).
