Re: [PATCH] generate hotplug events for cpu online

[Nathan Lynch]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:46:56PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > We already do kobject_hotplug for cpu offline; this adds a
> > kobject_hotplug call for the online case.  This is being requested by
> > developers of an application which wants to be notified about both
> > kinds of events.
> 
> I'm afraid of bad interactions with swsusp/S3 on smp. We offline cpus there,
> but we probably do not want userland to know...

The kobject_hotplug calls for cpu online and offline are present only
in the code paths where the operation is initiated through the sysfs
interface, so I don't think you have to worry.

Nathan
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/