Re: [PATCH] x86/sev: Make SEV_STATUS available via SYSFS

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Mar 06 2025 - 08:57:35 EST


On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 03:36:02PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> I think we should be pretty use to one-datum-per-file thing by now.
> I don't see why coco case is special.

I want to avoid all the boilerplate code for each sysfs node. And it doesn't
matter if you do:

cat /proc/coco

or

grep -r . /sys/.../coco/

And you can't format sysfs output in a human-readable fashion if you have to
dump registers like SEV_STATUS, which started that whole conversation.

But if everybody is crazy about sysfs, I ...

[ /me goes and looks up the proverb people fancy using nowadays... ]

... I won't die on that hill.

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