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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2 5/8] x86/platform/uv: Add UV Hubbed/Hubless Proc FS Files
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On 9/10/2019 11:04 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> wrote:
>
>> @@ -1596,7 +1687,7 @@ static void __init uv_system_init_hub(vo
>> uv_nmi_setup();
>> uv_cpu_init();
>> uv_scir_register_cpu_notifier();
>> - proc_mkdir("sgi_uv", NULL);
>> + uv_setup_proc_files(0);
>
> This slipped through previously: platform drivers have absolutely no
> business mucking in /proc.
>
> Please describe the hardware via sysfs as pretty much everyone else does.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
>

If I was doing it now I definitely would put it in the sysfs realm. The
problem is Jack did it back in (I think) 2007. The earliest commit I
could find:

commit a3d732f93785da17e0137210deadb4616f5536fc
Author: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Date: Mon Nov 10 16:16:31 2008 -0600

x86, UV: fix redundant creation of sgi_uv

Impact: fix double entry creation in /proc

And in the past 12 years probably a hundred user programs are now keying
of the presence of /proc/sgi_uv to signal this is indeed a UV system.
Changing the location of this node also affects all the UV utilities
including those not written by us.

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