Brice Goglin, le Sun 04 Apr 2010 00:32:24 +0200, a écrit : > As I said in the past, we're trying to address 2 > different issues. I said we could have a "Group" type to replace the > current meaning of "Misc" and keep "Misc" for user-added objects only.
That's what I meant by "fixing" misc objects, and just did in r1906. > A better solution for backward compatibility would be to keep current > "Misc" objects as is, and change user-added objects to a new type such > as HWLOC_OBJ_USER or CUSTOM. Then only the later needs a quirk in the > ignore code. We have already broken the backward compatibility in a lot of ways, so I believe it's better to just name NUMA and AIX groups as "groups", and not just "misc", so misc can be used for really various things, be it user-provided, top-provided, or plugin-provided, etc. Samuel
