Re: [RFC PATCH 00/35] Xen i386 paravirtualization support

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat May 13 2006 - 21:38:09 EST


Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 05:20:11PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > It's also wrong. There's more than one hypervisor and Xen shouldn't just
> > > grab this namespace. make it xen_ or xenhv_.
> >
> > You should reject the recent "hypervisor file system" with the same
> > argument then.
>
> I prefer it would become lparfs or something like that indeed.

Yes, it did get renamed to something s390-specific.

Also, note

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/driver-core-add-sys-hypervisor-when-needed.patch

which creates the /sys/hypervisor directory. With the expectation that
_all_ hypervisorish subsystems will base their sysfs trees in there.

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