Re: [PATCH 2.6][resend] Add DEVPATH env variable to hotplug helpercall

[Andrew Morton]

Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 04:20:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > Does CPU hotplug behave correctly wrt /sys/devices/system/cpu?  Given that
>  > register_cpu() is still marked __init, I assume not.
> 
>  Currently what we have in the kernel is logical cpu hotplug, i.e once the
>  cpu is registered via register_cpu() that cpu can only go offline and still
>  the entry for that cpu will be present in the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online.
> 
>  So __init register_cpu() is fine untill we support unregister_cpu()
>  which is required for physical cpu hotplug case.
> 
>  I have submitted ACPI based physical cpu hotplug patches and waiting to here from
>  ACPI mainitainer Len Brown, there I have taken care to support unregister_cpu()
>  and register_cpu() is marked as __devinit in those patches.

OK...

But still, cpu_run_sbin_hotplug() should not exist.  It is duplicating
(indeed, emulating) kobject_hotplug() behaviour.  To the extent that it now
has a hardwired sysfs path embedded in it:

	sprintf(devpath_str, "DEVPATH=devices/system/cpu/cpu%d", cpu);

which should have been obtained from kobject_get_path().
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