Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System

[Andrew Morton]

Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:44:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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