Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750791AbWBVNGS (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:06:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750829AbWBVNGR (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:06:17 -0500 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:29635 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750791AbWBVNGR (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:06:17 -0500 Message-ID: <43FC61C4.30002@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:06:12 -0500 From: "Mike D. Day" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Heiko Carstens , Dave Hansen , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, lkml , Greg KH Subject: Re: [ PATCH 2.6.16-rc3-xen 3/3] sysfs: export Xen hypervisor attributes to sysfs References: <43FB2642.7020109@us.ibm.com> <1140542130.8693.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060222123250.GB9295@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <43FC5B1D.5040901@us.ibm.com> <1140612969.2979.20.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1140612969.2979.20.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 571 Lines: 14 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > surely those tools already talk to the hypervisor.. so they might as > well ask for this information themselves... no need to bloat the kernel > for this Yes, it is an optional function. The current implementation is a module that can be omitted from the configuration, built-in, or loadable. Mike - 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/