From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:34:01 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add node 'states' sysfs class attribute - V2 Message-Id: <20070827223401.20230eb1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070827222912.8b364352.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200708242228.l7OMS5fU017948@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <1188248528.5952.95.camel@localhost> <20070827170159.0a79529d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070827181405.57a3d8fe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070827201822.2506b888.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070827222912.8b364352.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter , Lee Schermerhorn , linux-mm , mel@skynet.ie, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, Kamezawa Hiroyuki , Eric Whitney List-ID: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:29:12 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > Even if you do this: It will significantly slow us > > down always having to come to you and ask you for a tool. > > Your claim here is, I believe, that a human user interface should be > implemented in the kernel because the cost (to you) (short-term) of doing > that is lower that the cost of implementing a simpler kernel interface and > a bit of userspace human presentation code. Even though the long-term > cost to the kernel maintainers is higher, and the resulting output is > harder for programs to parse. oh, hang on. We've already implemented that bitmap_scnlistprintf() monstrosity and we're presumably using it in sysfs, so tools already need to know how to parse it all. Sigh, so it's too late to fix it. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org