Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751538AbWAKRT4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:19:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751539AbWAKRT4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:19:56 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:15307 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751533AbWAKRTz (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:19:55 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Mike D. Day" Cc: lkml , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com In-Reply-To: <43C53DA0.60704@us.ibm.com> References: <43C53DA0.60704@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:19:46 +0100 Message-Id: <1136999987.2929.63.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 19 On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:17 -0500, Mike D. Day wrote: > The included patch provides some sysfs helper routines so that xen > domain kernel processes can easily attributes to sysfs. The intent is > that any kernel process can add an attribute under /sys/xen just as > easily as adding a file under /proc. In other words, without using the > driver core to create a subsystem, dealing with kobjects and ksets, etc. eh... WHY ??? so that sys gets just as much of a mess as proc already is, so that there are 2 messes????? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/