From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lennart@poettering.net,
harald@redhat.com, david@fubar.dk
Subject: Re: A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 11:59:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111007185905.GA29127@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317943022.1095.25.camel@mop>
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 01:17:02AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> * CPU modaliases in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/modalias:
> useful to allow module auto-loading of e.g. cpufreq drivers and KVM
> modules. Andy Kleen has a patch to create the alias file itself. CPU
> ‘struct sysdev’ needs to be converted to ‘struct device’ and a ‘struct
> bus_type cpu’ needs to be introduced to allow proper CPU coldplug event
> replay at bootup. This is one of the last remaining places where
> automatic hardware-triggered module auto-loading is not available. And
> we’d like to see that fix to make numerous ugly userspace work-arounds
> to achieve the same go away.
I need to get off my ass and fix this properly, now that Rafael has done
all of the hard work for sysdev already. Thanks for reminding me.
> * export ‘struct device_type fb/fbcon’ of ‘struct class graphics’
> Userspace wants to easily distinguish ‘fb’ and ‘fbcon’ from each other
> without the need to match on the device name.
Can't we just export a "type" file for the device for these devices?
Is it really just that simple?
> * module-init-tools: provide a proper libmodprobe.so from
> module-init-tools:
> Early boot tools, installers, driver install disks want to access
> information about available modules to optimize bootup handling.
What information do they want to know?
> * allow user xattrs to be set on files in the cgroupfs (and maybe
> procfs?)
This shouldn't be that difficult, right?
Thanks for the list, much appreciated.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 23:17 Kay Sievers
2011-10-06 23:46 ` Andi Kleen
2011-10-07 0:13 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-07 1:57 ` Andi Kleen
2011-10-07 15:58 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-19 23:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-07 7:49 ` Matt Helsley
2011-10-07 16:01 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-08 4:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-10 16:31 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-10 20:59 ` Detecting if you are running in a container Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-10 21:41 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-11 5:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-11 6:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-12 16:59 ` Kay Sievers
2011-11-01 22:05 ` [lxc-devel] " Michael Tokarev
2011-11-01 23:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-11-02 8:08 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-10-11 1:32 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-11 2:05 ` Matt Helsley
2011-10-11 3:25 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-11 6:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-11 12:53 ` Theodore Tso
2011-10-11 21:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-11 22:30 ` david
2011-10-12 4:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-12 5:10 ` david
2011-10-12 15:08 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-12 17:57 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-12 18:25 ` Kyle Moffett
2011-10-12 19:04 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-12 19:12 ` Kyle Moffett
2011-10-14 15:54 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-14 18:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-14 21:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-16 9:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-30 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-01 13:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-11 22:25 ` david
2011-10-07 10:12 ` A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux Alan Cox
2011-10-07 10:28 ` Kay Sievers
2011-10-07 10:38 ` Alan Cox
2011-10-07 12:46 ` Kay Sievers
2011-10-07 13:39 ` Theodore Tso
2011-10-07 15:21 ` Hugo Mills
2011-10-10 11:18 ` A Plumber???s " David Sterba
2011-10-10 13:09 ` Theodore Tso
2011-10-13 0:28 ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-14 15:47 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-11 13:14 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-11 15:49 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2011-10-12 2:31 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-12 20:51 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-08 9:53 ` A Plumber’s " Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-10-09 3:15 ` Alex Elsayed
2011-10-07 16:07 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-07 12:35 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-10-07 18:59 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-10-09 12:20 ` Kay Sievers
2011-10-09 8:45 ` Rusty Russell
2011-10-11 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-12 0:53 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-10-12 0:59 ` Frederic Weisbecker
[not found] ` <20111012174014.GE6281@google.com>
2011-10-12 18:16 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-10-14 15:38 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-10-14 16:01 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-10-14 16:08 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-10-14 16:19 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-10-19 21:19 ` Paul Menage
2011-10-19 21:12 ` Paul Menage
2011-10-19 23:03 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-19 23:09 ` Paul Menage
2011-10-19 23:31 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-22 10:21 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-10-22 15:28 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-10-25 5:40 ` Li Zefan
2011-10-30 17:18 ` Lennart Poettering
2011-11-01 1:27 ` Li Zefan
[not found] <CAE2SPAZci=u__d58phePCftVr_e+i+N2YU-JYjGDG_b3TmYTSQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-10-07 13:40 ` Alan Cox
2011-10-07 14:57 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
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