Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Wed, 03 May 2006 15:18:41 +0200, Michael Holzheu said:
> Of course! But the convention must be, that If userspace wants to
> access the data, it has to use our standard linux
> parser. If it accesses the data directly, this is broken.

Yet another case of Eternal Optimism flying in the face of Reality... ;)

a) you can't *force* the use of your parser.
b) this creates a userspace dependency that can get messy if the parser is buggy
or requires modification to deal with a kernel change.

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