Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System

[Greg KH]

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.

> 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?

thanks,

greg k-h
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