Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751285AbWBVOCE (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:02:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750740AbWBVOCE (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:02:04 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:6616 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285AbWBVOCC (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:02:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [ PATCH 2.6.16-rc3-xen 3/3] sysfs: export Xen hypervisor attributes to sysfs From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Mike D. Day" Cc: Heiko Carstens , Dave Hansen , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, lkml , Greg KH In-Reply-To: <43FC6A86.90901@us.ibm.com> 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> <43FC61C4.30002@us.ibm.com> <20060222131918.GC9295@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <43FC6A86.90901@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:01:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1140616911.2979.22.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 755 Lines: 19 On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 08:43 -0500, Mike D. Day wrote: > Heiko Carstens wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:06:12AM -0500, Mike D. Day wrote: > > > > If it's not needed, why include it at all? > > Sorry for not being clear. It *is* needed for control tools and agents > running in the privileged domain. but again those tools and agents *already* have a way of talking to the hypervisor themselves. Why can't they just first ask this info? Why does that need to be in the kernel, in unswappable memory? - 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/