Re: [ PATCH 2.6.16-rc3-xen 3/3] sysfs: export Xen hypervisor attributes to sysfs

[Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>]

> I'm wondering if this information couldn't be laid out in a slightly
> more generic way so that other hypervisors could use the same layout.
> Instead of:
> 
> +---sys
>         +---hypervisor
>                 +---xen
>                         +---version
>                         +---major
>                         +---minor
>                         +---extra
> 
> It could be:
> 
> +---sys
>         +---hypervisor
>                 +---type
> 		+---version
>                         +---major
>                         +---minor
>                         +---extra
> 
> Where cat /sys/hypervisor/type is 'xen'.  That way, if there are generic
> things about hypervisors to export here, any generic tools can find them
> without having to know exactly which hypervisor is running.
> 
> You can also set the standard that any other hypervisor has to
> follow! :)

I doubt that there is much that different hypervisors can share.
Why should all this be visible for user space anyway? What's the purpose?

Heiko
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