xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] sysfs support for xen linux
On 5:21 AM Keir Fraser wrote:
Well, here's a question, and I really don't know the answer: It of
course makes sense that the kernel maintainers want drivers to
install themselves under /sys, and fit in with the whole kobject and
hotplug infrastructure. But, for a few odds-and-ends special files
that don't really relate to a device, is /proc also out of bounds
these days? Seems to me that the kernel proc interfaces were designed
to have a few random files thrown at them, in a way that the sysfs
interfaces aren't. If the argument is really that random special
files are a bad idea, that would continue to hold regardless of
whether we move e.g., /proc/xen/privcmd to /sys.
I think that /sys is clearly the right place to put information about
Xen, including version, domains and domain info, and perhaps info about
xenstore. This is according to feedback received when I submitted my
first (braindead) patch moving /proc/xen to /proc/sys/xen.
Still I agree that we need input from lkml and am going to cross-post an
RFC so we can move forward.
regards,
Mike
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Mike D. Day
STSM and Architect, Open Virtualization
IBM Linux Technology Center
ncmike@xxxxxxxxxx
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