Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:14:23 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System |
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:44:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > > > As mount point for the filesystem /sys/hypervisor is created. > > > > What does this mean, btw? I don't see code there creating a new sysfs > > directory, and userspace cannot do this. > > The call to subsystem_register() does this.
Ah. It's using "hypfs". Michael was tricking us.
> > Also, "/sys/hypervisor" is probably insufficiently specific. In a few > > years time people will be asking "Which hypervisor? We have eighteen of them!". > > I agree, the xen people are already clammering for some kind of sysfs > tree and wanted to create /sys/hypervisor/xen. How about > /sys/hypervisor/s390?
Yes, something like that. Even "hypfs" is possibly too generic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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