> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:49:38AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 11:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > echo "physical_address=0x40000000 numa_node=3" > memory/probe
> > > >
> > > > I'd *GREATLY* prefer that over this new syntax. The existing mechanism
> > > > is obtuse enough, and the ',3' makes it more so.
> > > >
> > > > We should have the code around to parse arguments like that, too, since
> > > > we use it for the boot command-line.
> > >
> > > If you are going to be doing something like this, please use configfs,
> > > that is what it is designed for, not sysfs.
> >
> > That's probably a really good point, especially since configfs didn't
> > even exist when we made this 'probe' file thingy. It never was a great
> > fit for sysfs anyway.
> >
> > -- Dave
>
> the configfs was introduced in 2005, you can refer to
http://lwn.net/Articles/148973/.
>
> I enabled the configfs, and I see that the configfs is not so popular as we expected,
> I mount configfs to /sys/kernel/config, I get an empty directory. It means that nobody is
> using this file system, it is an interesting thing, is it means that configfs is deprecated?
