Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 03/12] docs: add feature document for Xen hypervisor sysfs-like support

["Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>]

On 09.03.20 12:48, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Juergen,
> 
> On 26/02/2020 12:46, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On the 2019 Xen developer summit there was agreement that the Xen
>> hypervisor should gain support for a hierarchical name-value store
>> similar to the Linux kernel's sysfs.
>>
>> In the beginning there should only be basic support: entries can be
>> added from the hypervisor itself only, there is a simple hypercall
>> interface to read the data.
>>
>> Add a feature document for setting the base of a discussion regarding
>> the desired functionality and the entries to add.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>> ---
>> V1:
>> - remove the "--" prefixes of the sub-commands of the user tool
>>    (Jan Beulich)
>> - rename xenfs to xenhypfs (Jan Beulich)
>> - add "tree" and "write" options to user tool
>>
>> V2:
>> - move example tree to the paths description (Ian Jackson)
>> - specify allowed characters for keys and values (Ian Jackson)
>>
>> V3:
>> - correct introduction (writable entries)
>>
>> V4:
>> - add list specification
>> - add entry example (Julien Grall)
>> - correct date and Xen version (Julien Grall)
>> - add ARM64 as possible architecture (Julien Grall)
>> - add version description to the feature doc (Jan Beulich)
>> ---
>>   docs/features/hypervisorfs.pandoc |  92 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   docs/misc/hypfs-paths.pandoc      | 105 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   2 files changed, 197 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 docs/features/hypervisorfs.pandoc
>>   create mode 100644 docs/misc/hypfs-paths.pandoc
>>
>> diff --git a/docs/features/hypervisorfs.pandoc 
>> b/docs/features/hypervisorfs.pandoc
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000000..a0a0ead057
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/docs/features/hypervisorfs.pandoc
>> @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
>> +% Hypervisor FS
>> +% Revision 1
>> +
>> +\clearpage
>> +
>> +# Basics
>> +---------------- ---------------------
>> +         Status: **Supported**
> 
> I think you also want to update SUPPORT.MD with the status of the feature.

I will send a patch doing this when all patches up to patch 6 have
gone in, as those are needed at least.

> 
> Other than that:
> 
> Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>

Thanks


Juergen