[PATCH 1/2] Add /sys/firmware/memmap

Dave Hansen dave at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jun 27 14:51:04 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 13:12 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> 
> This patch adds /sys/firmware/memmap interface that represents the
> BIOS
> (or Firmware) provided memory map. The tree looks like:
> 
>     /sys/firmware/memmap/0/start   (hex number)
>                            end     (hex number)
>                            type    (string)
>     ...                 /1/start
>                            end
>                            type

Could we give this a slightly different name?  We have various 'mem_map'
variables in the kernel, and this confused me on first glance. 

Could we just spell out 'memory_map'?

-- Dave




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