From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932256AbWENBij (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 21:38:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750973AbWENBij (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 21:38:39 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:34274 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750762AbWENBii (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 21:38:38 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 18:35:20 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: ak@suse.de, hch@infradead.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/35] Xen i386 paravirtualization support Message-Id: <20060513183520.79a0d44e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060509152240.GA17837@infradead.org> References: <20060509084945.373541000@sous-sol.org> <4460AC01.5020503@mbligh.org> <20060509150701.GA14050@infradead.org> <20060509152240.GA17837@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 05:20:11PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > It's also wrong. There's more than one hypervisor and Xen shouldn't just > > > grab this namespace. make it xen_ or xenhv_. > > > > You should reject the recent "hypervisor file system" with the same > > argument then. > > I prefer it would become lparfs or something like that indeed. Yes, it did get renamed to something s390-specific. Also, note http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/driver-core-add-sys-hypervisor-when-needed.patch which creates the /sys/hypervisor directory. With the expectation that _all_ hypervisorish subsystems will base their sysfs trees in there.