Re: [PATCH] Revert "memory-hotplug: add 0x prefix to HEXblock_size_bytes"

[Pavel Machek]

On Thu 2010-04-08 23:41:24, Am?rico Wang wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 05:10:06PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> >From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Revert ba168fc37dea145deeb8fa9e7e71c748d2e00d74 "memory-hotplug: add 0x prefix
> >to HEX block_size_bytes" since it changes the user space visible sysfs interface
> >/sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes.
> >The change breaks existing user space applications which rely on the fact that
> >the output does not contain the "0x" prefix.
> >
> 
> Odd.
> 
> Which application relies on this? Isn't the application which should
> be fixed?? It should use something like strtoul() which doesn't
> rely on '0x' prefix.

'no regressions'?!

You should not randomly change kernel api, then blame it on applications.
								Pavel
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